More quotes by Andre Gide

"The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity."
"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."
"Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason."
"The color of truth is grey."
"Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better."