Andre Gide
49 quotes
Biography
André Paul Guillaume Gide was a French author whose writing spanned a wide variety of styles and topics. He was awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature.
"Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor."
"Be faithful to that which exists within yourself."
"There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome."
"It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor."
"Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."
"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."
"Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change."
"There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them."
"Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness."
"What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told."
"'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know."
"Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences."
"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."
"The color of truth is gray."
"Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change."
"It is now and in this world that we must live."
"Welcome everything that comes to you but do not long for anything else."
"One completely overcomes only what one assimilates."
"One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything and consequently get nothing."
"Sadness is a state of sin."
"Sadness is a state of sin."
"Sadness is a state of sin."
"Sadness is a state of sin."
"Sadness is a state of sin."
"Sadness is a state of sin."