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Andre Gide Quotes about Art

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The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.

The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.

Art, Philosophy, History

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

Spiritual, Art, Creative Collaboration

"The Millionaire Rig Veda" by Timothy James Brearton, (p. 40), 2012.

How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.

Art, Doe, Sensuality

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

Art, Overcoming, Resistance

"Poétique". Book by André Gide, 1947.

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

Strength, Art, Doe

A work of art is an exaggeration.

Art, Art Is, Exaggeration

"Let the dead bury the dead." There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.

Christian, Art, Philosophy

If life were organized, there would be no need for art.

Art, Would Be, Needs

The only really Christian art is that which, like St. Francis, does not fear being wedded to poverty. This rises far above art-as-ornament.

Christian, Art, Poverty

Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.284, Routledge

An artist cannot get along without a public; and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.

Art, Age, Doe

Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.51, Routledge

The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.

Art, Ideas, Exaggeration

Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.

Art, Self, Expression

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

Art, Serenity, Rising

Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.14, Routledge

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.

Art, Overcoming, Doe

There is no work of art that is without short cuts.

Art, Cutting, Works Of Art

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