Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the... - Gustave Flaubert

"The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments."

"I am irritated by my own writing. I am like a violinist whose ear is true, but whose fingers refuse to reproduce precisely the sound he hears within."

"The public wants work which flatters its illusions."

"Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom."

"There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it"