Andre Gide Quotes

If I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood.

I do not feel happy when a collection is understood too well.

Any play that's making a point is less interesting than something that stays with you and suggests something further.

There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white.

In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.

I've learned that I need to spell out, even in cases seemingly so blatant, that in fact I am not taking this at face value and am being 'sarcastic.'

Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.

I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can't really do that fast.

A writer who is in a hurry to be understood today or tomorrow runs the danger of being misunderstood the day after tomorrow.

The color of truth is gray.

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.

A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.

I am oblique; I think that has to do with my own nature. I like trying to do things which work on many levels, because I think it is terribly important to give an audience a lot of things they might not get as well as those they will, so that finally the film does take on a texture and is not just simplistic communication.

It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because it makes you look closer and that's what humans are like - quite mysterious creatures, hard to pinpoint.

I cannot be understood in three minutes.

It's like our relationship is always about the other side that isn't the obvious side.

I think it's important for people to always understand what is the context is in what is being said, because that obviously determines what folks are talking about.

If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.

We find few disputes, that are not founded on some ambiguity in the expression [thereof].

Any order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood

For me, I want to find the truth in the word and the character and the line.