3 December 2020 Andre Gide The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
3 December 2020 Andre Gide One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
3 December 2020 Andre Gide Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
3 December 2020 Andre Gide No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
3 December 2020 Andre Gide It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
3 December 2020 Andre Gide The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
3 December 2020 Andre Gide Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow’s joy is possible only if today’s makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
3 December 2020 Andre Gide What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
3 December 2020 Andre Gide Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Andre Gide To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
3 December 2020 Andre Gide Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
3 December 2020 Andre Gide Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
3 December 2020 Andre Gide Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
3 December 2020 Andre Gide Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
3 December 2020 Andre Gide Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
