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.

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

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

The color of truth is gray.

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

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

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.

It is now and in this world that we must live.

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.

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