Andre Gide
Andre Gide
André Paul Guillaume Gidewas a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947 "for his comprehensive and artistically significant writings, in which human problems and conditions have been presented with a fearless love of truth and keen psychological insight". Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism between the two World Wars...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionAutobiographer
Date of Birth22 November 1869
CountryFrance
Andre Gide quotes about
Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
True eloquence forgoes eloquence.
Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.
Not everyone can be an orphan.
It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.
Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.
Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.
It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.
There are admirable potentialities in every human being.
The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.
Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us.