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Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is over

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

Other quotes by Andre Gide

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrows joy is possible only if todays makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one. – Andre Gide

Category:
Beauty
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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company. – Andre Gide

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Travel
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Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences. – Andre Gide

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respect
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Diplomacy: the art of restraining power. – Henry A. Kissinger

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I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art. – Khalil Gibran

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Film in the 20th century, its the American art form, like jazz. – Martin Scorsese

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O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars. – Christopher Marlowe

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