Andre Gide quotes

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

Art begins with resistance, at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

Andre Gide

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Andre Gide

Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

Andre Gide

Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.

Andre Gide

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Andre Gide

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves, in finding themselves.

Andre Gide

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Andre Gide

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

Andre Gide

Dare to be yourself.

Andre Gide

Be faithful to that which exist.

Andre Gide

At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles-wrinkles that my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.

Andre Gide

'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.

Andre Gide

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Andre Gide

Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?

Andre Gide

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

Andre Gide

If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn't hesitate to do so.

Andre Gide

I owe much to my friends. But, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs to life under a strain even better than under a caress.

Andre Gide

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

Andre Gide

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.

Andre Gide

Life eludes logic.

Andre Gide

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

Andre Gide

Art begins with resistance-at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

Andre Gide

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Andre Gide