Ocupation: Novelist
Life: July 1, 1804 - June 8, 1876
Birthday: July 1
Death: June 8
... everyone's free to embark on either a great clipper or a little fishing boat. An artist is an explorer who oughtn't to shrink from anything: it doesn't matter whether he goes to the left or the right -- his goal sanctifies all.
source: Gustave Flaubert, George Sand, Alphonse Jacobs (1993). “Flaubert - Sand: the correspondence”, Vintage
topic: Artist, Fishing, Goal, Fishing Boats, Sanctify