"I have always thought that great artists were those who dared to confer the right of beauty on things so natural that people say on seeing them, "Wh… - André Gide

The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?

At times it seems to me that I am living my life backwards, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles—wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.

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

J'aurais voulu pleurer, mais je sentais mon cœur plus aride que le désert.