Andre Gide

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would ...
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the ...
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a ...
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

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.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

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

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

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

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

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

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

Not everyone can be an orphan.

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.

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

The color of truth is gray.

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.

The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

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

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

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

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

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it, what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable.

Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.