“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
More from Flaubert on Creativity
“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”
“Every notary carries about inside him the debris of a poet.”
“And so I will take back up my poor life, so plain and so tranquil, where phrases are adventures and the only flowers I gather are metaphors.”
“Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
Others on Creativity
Thomas Edison
5 quotes“To have a great idea, have a lot of them.”
Linus Pauling
4 quotes“The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.”
Wallace Stevens
4 quotes“A change of style is a change of meaning.”
Michelangelo
4 quotes“Critique by creating.”
Deepak Chopra
4 quotes“Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.”
Miles Davis
4 quotes“I’m always thinking about creating. My future starts when I wake up in the morning and see the light.”
Picasso
3 quotes“God is really another artist. He invented the giraffe the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on t...”
Sylvia Plath
3 quotes“let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences”
Vincent van Gogh
3 quotes“It is looking at things for a long time that ripens you and gives you a deeper meaning.”
Émile Zola
3 quotes“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”
Marianne Williamson
3 quotes“In our ability to think about something differently lies the power to make it different.”
William Blake
3 quotes“He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.”