Quote

The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.

Andre Gide

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
Author
Autobiographer
Diarist
Essayist
Film Producer
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Prosaist
Translator
Travel Writer
Writer
Paris
France
André Paul Guillaume Gide
Andre Gide
Andre Paul Guillaume Gide
Doe
Recognized
Firsts
Deepest
First
Strongest
Subtle
Supreme
Allow
Strength
Art

More quotes by Andre Gide

Image
It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.
Andre Gide
Image
I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.
Andre Gide
Image
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
Andre Gide
Image
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
Andre Gide
Image
I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.
Andre Gide
Image
Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?
Andre Gide
Image
So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
Andre Gide
Image
Solitude is bearable only with God.
Andre Gide
Image
Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.
Andre Gide
Image
What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
Andre Gide
Image
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
Andre Gide
Image
The individual person is more interesting than people in general he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.
Andre Gide
Image
Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger.
Andre Gide
Image
I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.
Andre Gide
Image
At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.
Andre Gide
Image
Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.
Andre Gide
Image
It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
Andre Gide
Image
Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
Andre Gide
Image
I do not love men: I love what devours them.
Andre Gide
Image
Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.
Andre Gide