Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) was a French novelist. There are 4 quotes listed below.
1. "Thought is the greatest of pleasures - pleasure itself is only imagination - have you ever enjoyed anything more than your dreams?" (AZQuotes.com)
2. "Without ideality, there is no grandeur; without grandeur there is no beauty... Exuberance is better than taste." (Sentimental Education, 1869)
3. "The finest works of art are those in which there is the least matter. The closer expression comes to thought, the more the word clings to the idea and disappears, the more beautiful the work of art." (AZQuotes.com)
4. "Don't talk to me about your hideous reality! ...There is nothing less natural than Michelangelo; there is nothing more powerful! The anxiety about eternal truth is a mark of contemporary baseness; and art will become, if things go in that way, a sort of poor joke as below religion as it is below poetry, and much below politics as it is below business. You will never reach its end!" (Sentimental Education, 1869)
