Andre Gide

"God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved."

"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."

"Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason."

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

"Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings."

"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."

"The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity."

"The color of truth is grey."

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

"Be faithful to that which exists within yourself."

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

"He who wants a rose must respect her thorn."