Andre Gide Quotes About Art
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Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.
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An artist cannot get along without a public; and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.
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There is no work of art that is without short cuts.
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"Let the dead bury the dead." There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.
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The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.
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A work of art is an exaggeration.
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The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.
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Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
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The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
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How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
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If life were organized, there would be no need for art.
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The only really Christian art is that which, like St. Francis, does not fear being wedded to poverty. This rises far above art-as-ornament.
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