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Art Quotes by Andre Gide
- There is no work of art that is without short cuts.
- 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…
- Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.
- The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.
- How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
- The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be…
- 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.
- There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
- The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
- A work of art is an exaggeration.
- Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
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