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
Art begins with resistance-at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.
Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes
Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.
The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations
Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
The belief that becomes truth for me - is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action
The most decisive actions of our life -- I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future -- are, more often than not, unconsidered.
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer; but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.
The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.
You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.