Art begins with resistance - at the poin... | Andre Gide

Art

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

- Andre Gide

Quote of the Day

I will perform My Heart Will Go On for the rest of my life and it will always remain a very emotional experience for me.

- Celine Dion

Other quotes by Andre Gide

Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.

- Andre Gide

Fear

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

- Andre Gide

Truth

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

- Andre Gide

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

- Andre Gide

Beginning

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

- Andre Gide

People

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

- Andre Gide

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Work Art First

On my first days here I did not start work immediately but, as planned, I took it easy for a few days - flicked through books, studied Japanese art a little.

- Gustav Klimt

Soul Art

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

- Iris Murdoch

Art

I think when an actress marries she should leave the stage. She cannot be happy if she is married and remains on the stage. She must care more for her art or for her husband.

- Billie Burke

Art

Marriage always demands the greatest understanding of the art of insincerity possible between two human beings.

- Vicki Baum

Mind Art

Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy, the fear to attack.

- Sterling Hayden

Art People

The idea is to bring art to people who might never really interact with it. It's for all citizens, and it's about making the city more interesting and more visually significant.

- Susan Davis