Andre Gide

“Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.”

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

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

“Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.”

“There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.”

“Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.”

“Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.”

“The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.”

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

“It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.”