Quotes by Andre Gide

“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.”

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

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

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

“The color of truth is gray.”

“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 p...”

“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 the...”

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

“Art is a 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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.”

“The scholar seeks the artist finds.”

“A work of art is an exaggeration.”

“A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.”

“Oh would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas as the tree does its withered leaves!”