Andre GideThinkers

Art is an idea that one exaggerates.

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

Beauty is only in those things inspired by madness and written by reason.

Being hated is not all bad. It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

Discovery is risky. One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.

Fear is warranted by very few of the monsters we empower therewith.

The Fish dies belly-upward and rises to the surface... it is their way of falling.

The French (language) is a piano without a pedal.

The Frenchman is one for whom it is unthinkable to arrive at middle age without having both syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honour.

Happiness is prevented by nothing as much as by the memory of happiness.