“In art as in love, instinct is enough.”

— Anatole France, The Garden of Epicurus, 1894

About Anatole France

1844 – 1924

French poet, journalist and novelist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature (1921).

“To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”

“What we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.”

“If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one.”

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

“A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.”

“Beauty starvation is almost as widespread as love starvation.”

“Life isn't long enough for love and art.”

“There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.”

“Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.”