Gustave Flaubert
  • There is no truth. There is only perception.

  • One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

  • Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.

  • The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.

  • The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful one must sense him everywhere but never see him.