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

Andre Gide

“Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.”

Andre Gide

“It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.”

Andre Gide

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

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 prece...”

Andre Gide