Andre Gide

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

“Fish die belly-upward and rise to the surface; it is their way of falling.”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“Know thyself!  A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar that wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.”

“The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say--because they were too obvious.”

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

“Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.” [The Fruits of the Earth]

“You cannot discover new oceans, unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.”