Andre Gide

The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.

André Gide

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.

André Gide

The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.

André Gide

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

André Gide

The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.

André Gide

The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

André Gide

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say – because they were too obvious.

André Gide

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

André Gide

The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death’s reach.

André Gide

The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.

André Gide