"The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens."
― Gustave Flaubert
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― Gustave Flaubert
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- "The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments."
- "Stupidity is something unshakable; nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it; it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant."
- "Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything."
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- "Look, you’re on the set for six months, with someone who’s rooting to be attracted to you, and you’re rooting to be attracted to them. I never understood the separation of work and life in that situation. But the time I spent with Megan was our own thing."― Shia LaBeouf
- "Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love."― Louis Kahn
- "O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out."― Abu Bakr