The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
Andre Gide
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- It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
- The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
- Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
- 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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