“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.”
More from Flaubert on Creativity
“Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.”
“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”
“Every notary carries about inside him the debris of a poet.”
“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.”