A true artist, for him, never could be wicked, for an artist is before all an observer
 Gustave Flaubert, Bouvard et Pécuchet (1881). copy citation

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Author Gustave Flaubert
Source Bouvard et Pécuchet
Topic artist
Date 1881
Language English
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“this caused him one day to cry out in his whimsical spontaneity: “I attach myself to the Ideal!” Then immediately laughing at our applause, he said: “Not bad, that! Poetry, isn’t it? I begin to comprehend art.” A true artist, for him, never could be wicked, for an artist is before all an observer; the first quality for an observer is to possess good eyes. If they are blurred with passion, or personal interest, things escape them; a good heart makes a good mind! His worship of the beautiful led him to say:” source