Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness: nothing but faith – faith always, and freedom. [L’Art ne réclame ni complaisance ni politesse, rien que la foi, la foi toujours et la liberté.]
Source:Letter to Leon Laurent-Pichat (October 2, 1856), The Letter of Gustave Flaubert (1830-1857), (ed. 1980), Page 220
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