Gustave Flaubert Quotes About Style

Quotes about: Style

• There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Art, Views, Style

• What seems beautiful to me, what I should like to write, is a book about nothing, a book dependent on nothing external, which would be held together by the strength of its style, just as the earth, suspended in the void, depends on nothing external for its support.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Beautiful, Book, Writing

  Gustave Flaubert, Francis Steegmuller (1980). “The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857”, p.154, Harvard University Press

• Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Soul, Style, Flesh

• One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Effort, Style, Stubborn

• One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!

  Gustave Flaubert

  Blood, Style, Literature

• What I would like to write is a book about nothing, a book without exterior attachments, which would be held together by the innerforce of its style, as the earth without support is held in the air--a book that would have almost no subject or at least in which the subject would be almost invisible.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Art, Book, Writing

• 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.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Work, Heart, Night

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