More quotes by Gustave Flaubert

"Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything."
"There is not a particle of life which does not bear poetry within it"
"Love is a springtime plant that perfumes everything with its hope, even the ruins to which it clings."
"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."