I have studied the art of the masters and the art of the moderns, avoiding any preconceived system and without prejudice.


Gustave Courbet

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I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract.
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The public wants work which flatters its illusions.
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No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, b...
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Of all lies, art is the least untrue.
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The deplorable mania of doubt exhausts me. I doubt about everything, even my doubts.
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The more humanity advances, the more it is degraded.
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Our ignorance of history makes us libel our own times. People have always been like this.
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A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.
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Exuberance is better than taste.
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How you measure the performance of your managers directly affects the way they act.
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She would have liked not to be alive, or to be always asleep.
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He had carefully avoided her out of the natural cowardice that characterizes the stronger sex.
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What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.
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Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.
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Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.
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Sadness is a vice.
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Stupidity lies in wanting to draw conclusions.
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Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.
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I am a man-pen. I feel through the pen, because of the pen.
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One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.
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Deep in her soul, however, she was waiting for something to happen. Like a sailor in distress, she w...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
When we entered a classroom we always tossed our caps on the floor, to free our hands; as soon as we...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Da bambino amavo ciò che si vede, da adolescente quello che si sente: da uomo, non amo più nulla.<...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
So when will this society, bastardised by every debauchery of mind, body and
soul, finally come...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Open them, weak yet proud man, pitiful ant that struggles to crawl over its
speck of dust! You ...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Everyone rushes wherever his instincts impel him, the populace swarms like insects over a corpse, po...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
This haze of blood must subside, the palace must collapse under the weight of the riches it conceals...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
If there is on earth, and among all these things of nothing, a belief worthy of adoration, if there ...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
But for the man who watches the leaves trembling in the wind’s breath, the rivers meandering throu...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Charles went to kiss her shoulder.
-Leave me alone! she said, you're creasing my dress.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
– Assim, nós – dizia ele –, por que nós nos conhecemos? Que acaso o quis? É que através da...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
The idea of bringing someone into the world fills me with horror. I would curse myself if I were a f...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
...and since, human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears ...
FLAUBERT GUSTAVE
How oft the warmth of the sun above
Makes a pretty young girl dream of love.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Irony takes nothing away from pathos.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
But the more Emma recognised her love, the more she crushed it down, that it might not be evident, t...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Thought is the greatest of pleasures —pleasure itself is only imagination—have you ever enjoyed ...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Oh, if somewhere there were a being strong and handsome, a valiant heart, passionate and sensitive a...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Never have things of the spirit counted for so little. Never has hatred for everything great been so...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
But how nothingness invades us! We are scarcely born ere decay begins for us, in such a way that the...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
There was an air of indifference about them, a calm produced by the gratification of every passion;...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
At other times, at the edge of a wood, especially at dusk, the trees themselves would assume strange...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
I grew up in a hospital and as a child I played in the dissecting room
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like s...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
With my burned hand, I write about the nature of fire.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Love art. Of all lies, it is the least untrue.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
As humanity perfects itself, man becomes degraded. When everything is reduced to the mere counter-ba...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
What stops me from taking myself seriously, even though I am essentially a serious person, is that I...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
I don't believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
I'm no more modern than ancient, no more French than Chinese, and the idea of a native country, that...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT