Andre Gide Quotes

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Andre Gide

Profession : Novelist

Birth : November 22, 1869

Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

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

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

Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.

Andre Gide

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

Andre Gide