The most important quality of art and its aim is illusion; emotion, which is often obtained by certain sacrifices of poetic detail, is something else entirely and of an inferior order.
Gustave FlaubertI go dreaming into the future, where I see nothing, nothing. I have no plans, no idea, no project, and, what is worse, no ambition. Something โ the eternal โwhatโs the use?โ โ sets its bronze barrier across every avenue that I open up in the realm of hypothesis.
Gustave Flaubert