Gustave Flaubert Work Quotations

The artist ought no more to appear in his work than God in nature.

The artist must be in his work like God in his Creation, invisible and all-powerful, so that he is felt everywhere but not seen.

The style, which is something I take to heart, is getting on my nerves horribly. It frustrates and torments me. I have days when Iam sick about it and nights when it gives me a fever. The more I go at it the more I find myself incapable of conveying the Idea.

I sometimes feel a great ennui, profound emptiness, doubts which sneer in my face in the midst of the most spontaneous satisfactions. Well, I would not exchange all that for anything, because it seems to me, in my conscience, that I am doing my duty, that I am obeying a superior fatality, that I am following the Good and that I am in the Right.

Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.