Quotes by Gide, Andre

The abominable effort to take one's sins with one to paradise. >>

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective. >>

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falli >>

Quotations about Arts and Artists

The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn' >>

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call >>

Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensi >>

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

Gide, Andre