Andre Gide Quotes

Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.

I don't claim anything of the work. It is his work. I am like a little pencil in his hand. That is all. He does the thinking. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

The position of the artist if humble. He is essentially a channel.

When I work, and in my art, I hold hands with God.

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.

Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God.

The modern notion of art is an essentially religious or magical one in which the artist is viewed as a holy beast who in some way, big or small, receives flashes from the godhead, which is known as creativity.

Usually, with me, the project is always the second thing. The film-maker comes first. Films grow out of the relationship.

Prayer is an art which only the Spirit can teach us. He is the giver of all prayer.

I've dedicated a lot of my life as a writer to understanding how to hear the divine voice, or the music of the spheres, or whatever it is that we do when we're making art, making something out of nothing. Figuring out how to do that is much more important than knowing how to execute a good line. I don't think about that anymore, I just write.

I think Balanchine and Robbins talk to God and when I call, he's out to lunch.

No friend have I. I must live by myself alone; but I know well that God is nearer to me than others in my art, so I will walk fearlessly with Him.

I have a special relationship with God. And when I take the right photograph, God gives me a little bing! in the camera. And then I know I'm on the right track.

If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?

Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam, whether it takes ultimate shape in a law of physics or a law of the land, a poem or a policy, a sonata or a mechanical computer.

God has given us an imagination, and our imagination is really the principle tool from which all creativity and artistry comes from.

A 'real pastor' is not preaching of their own; they are speaking what God put in their heart by the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is using them at that very moment to speak to the congregations situations -past, present, and future.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

We think when God speaks to us, there's going to be a boom out of Heaven or we're going to get some chill bumps, but I really believe God's talking to us all the time. He's talking to us right in here. I call it our heart, our conscience, but it's the Holy Spirit talking to us.

I like messing around, and I like working with artists who I respect.