385 Quotes by Andre Gide

Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.

Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.

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

I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.

It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.