One becomes a critic when one cannot be an artist, just as a man becomes a stool pigeon when he cannot be a soldier.


Correspondence - Letters to Madame Louise Colet (22 October 1846)

Gustave Flaubert Quotes

One becomes a critic when one cannot be an artist, just as a man becomes a stool pigeon when he cannot be a soldier.

One becomes a critic when one cannot be an artist, just as a man becomes a stool pigeon when he cannot be a soldier.

One becomes a critic when one cannot be an artist, just as a man becomes a stool pigeon when he cannot be a soldier.

One becomes a critic when one cannot be an artist, just as a man becomes a stool pigeon when he cannot be a soldier.