Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
- Andre Gide Quote

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
- Andre Gide Quote

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
- Andre Gide Quote

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
- Andre Gide Quote

God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
- Andre Gide Quote

Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
- Andre Gide Quote

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.
- Andre Gide Quote

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
- Andre Gide Quote

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

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
- Andre Gide Quote

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
- Andre Gide Quote

No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
- Andre Gide Quote

Not everyone can be an orphan.
- Andre Gide Quote

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.
- Andre Gide Quote

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
- Andre Gide Quote

The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
- Andre Gide Quote

The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
- Andre Gide Quote

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

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

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
- Andre Gide Quote

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
- Andre Gide Quote

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.
- Andre Gide Quote

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
- Andre Gide Quote

Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
- Andre Gide Quote

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

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
- Andre Gide Quote