Andre Gide Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

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

  Andre Gide

  Spiritual, Art, Creative Collaboration

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

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

  Andre Gide

  Art, Overcoming, Resistance

  "Poétique". Book by André Gide, 1947.

• 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.

  Andre Gide

  Art, Philosophy, History

• How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.

  Andre Gide

  Art, Doe, Sensuality

• A work of art is an exaggeration.

  Andre Gide

  Art, Art Is, Exaggeration

• 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.

  Andre Gide

  Art, Age, Doe

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

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

  Andre Gide

  Christian, Art, Philosophy

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

  Andre Gide

  Art, Self, Expression

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

  Andre Gide

  Art, Overcoming, Doe

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

  Andre Gide

  Art, Serenity, Rising

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

• The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.

  Andre Gide

  Art, Ideas, Exaggeration

• 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

  Strength, Art, Doe

• 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.

  Andre Gide

  Christian, Art, Poverty

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

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

  Andre Gide

  Art, Cutting, Works Of Art

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

  Andre Gide

  Art, Would Be, Needs

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