Andre Gide

The color of truth is grey.

— Andre Gide

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.

— Andre Gide

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.

— Andre Gide

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.

— Andre Gide

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

— 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

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.

— Andre Gide

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

— Andre Gide

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.

— 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

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.

— 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

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

— Andre Gide

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.

— Andre Gide

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

— Andre Gide

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

— Andre Gide

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

— Andre Gide

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.

— Andre Gide

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore

— 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

True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one’s own the suffering and joys of others.

— 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.

— Andre Gide

There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.

— Andre Gide

The most decisive actions of our life — I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future — are, more often than not, unconsidered.

— 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

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

— Andre Gide

The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they’re seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?

— Andre Gide

Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.

— Andre Gide

The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.

— 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.

— Andre Gide

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say — because they were too obvious.

— 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.

— Andre Gide

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

— Andre Gide

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

— Andre Gide

In my present insistence on high standards you will see that there is less self-indulgence than resolve and application. I do not let the Christian monopolize the ideal of perfection. I have my own virtue, which I am constantly cultivating and refining by teaching myself not to tolerate in me or my surroundings anything but the exquisite.

— Andre Gide

Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist’s business is to build the dwelling; as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him.

— Andre Gide

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.

— Andre Gide

Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.

— Andre Gide

The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.

— Andre Gide

O my dearest and most lovable thought, why should I try further to legitimize your birth?

— Andre Gide

Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.

— Andre Gide

True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.

— 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

Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.

— Andre Gide

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.

— Andre Gide

There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.

— Andre Gide

The only really Christian art is that which, like St. Francis, does not fear being wedded to poverty. This rises far above art-as-ornament.

— Andre Gide

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

— Andre Gide

The finest virtues can become deformed with age. The precise mind becomes finicky; the thrifty man, miserly; the cautious man, timorous; the man of imagination, fanciful. Even perseverance ends up in a sort of stupidity. Just as, on the other hand, being too willing to understand too many opinions, too diverse ways of seeing, constancy is lost and the mind goes astray in a restless fickleness.

— Andre Gide

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

— Andre Gide

We call “happiness” a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.

— Andre Gide

When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.

— Andre Gide

When people felt they had a right to seek out Christ before the torment, and in the fullness of his joy—it was too late; the cross had overcome Christ himself; it was Christ crucified that people continued to see and teach. And thus it is that religion came to plunge the world into gloom.

— Andre Gide

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

— Andre Gide

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

— Andre Gide

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.

— Andre Gide

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.

— 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.

— Andre Gide

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

— Andre Gide

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.

— Andre Gide

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.

— Andre Gide

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.

— Andre Gide

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.

— Andre Gide

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.

— Andre Gide

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.

— Andre Gide

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.

— 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.

— Andre Gide

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.

— Andre Gide