Andre Gide

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

"'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know."

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

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

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

"It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor."

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

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