More quotes by Andre Gide

"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."
"Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor."
"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."
"He who wants a rose must respect her thorn."
"Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason."