Be orderly and disciplined in daily life, like a good bourgeois, so that I might be wild and violent in my art.
Gustave FlaubertOne arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.
Gustave FlaubertDAGUERREOTYPE Will take the place of painting. (See PHOTOGRAPHY.) (From The Dictionary of Received Ideas, assembled from notes Flaubert made in the 1870s.)
Gustave FlaubertOh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.
Gustave Flaubert