"No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond."
-Andre Gide
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"There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome."
-Andre Gide
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"The color of truth is gray."
-Andre Gide
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"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."
-Andre Gide
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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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"One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."
-Andre Gide
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"I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen."
-Tom Stoppard
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"Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that."
-Jeff Bridges
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"My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful."
-Tom Stoppard
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"The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist."
-Novalis
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"Close your bodily eye, that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness, that its effect may work back, from without to within."
-Caspar David Friedrich
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"The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work."
-Brian Eno
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