Andre Gide Quotes About Imagination

Quotes about: Imagination

• 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

• Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide - obsessions where the senses go berserk, where nerves are exasperated, and which made me, at the onset of each night, believe sleep impossible.

  Andre Gide

  Believe, Sleep, Night

• The finest virtues can become deformed with age. The precise mind becomes finicky; the thrifty man, miserly; the cautious man, timorous; the man of imagination, fanciful. Even perseverance ends up in a sort of stupidity. Just as, on the other hand, being too willing to understand too many opinions, too diverse ways of seeing, constancy is lost and the mind goes astray in a restless fickleness.

  Andre Gide

  Perseverance, Men, Hands

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.289, Routledge

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