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"
"Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness; nothing but faith, faith and freedom."
"Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work."
"One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels."