Honoré de Balzac Quote

If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work…as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner…he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent.


La Cousine Bette (1846)


If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work…as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in...

If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work…as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in...

If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work…as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in...

If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work…as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in...