Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be f... - Gustave Flaubert
"Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work."
"Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work."
"Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings."
"There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it"
"Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom."
"One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness."
"An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere."