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
It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, “seeing that his work was good.”
I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.
So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?
There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
Long only for what you have.
Know thyself! A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time
Art begins with resistance-at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.