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Art Critic Inspirational Quotes (3191)

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To understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it's better not to be a fish.
Andre Malraux
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In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth. . . . Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose.
Andre Malraux
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If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?
Andre Malraux
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Athirst for personal salvation, the West forgets that many religions had but a vague notion of the life beyond the grave true, all great religions stake a claim on eternity, but not necessarily on man's eternal life.
Andre Malraux
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The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but all-essential field, that the artist has to battle.
Andre Malraux
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Though man's feeling for the other-worldly often has recourse to solitude, solitude does not foster its development rather, it is nourished by communion, to which the church is more propitious than the cemetery.
Andre Malraux
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The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
Andre Malraux
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Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time.
Andre Malraux
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No one can endure his own solitude.
Andre Malraux
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Here, reality is not subordinated to painting, indeed painting seems the handmaid of reality, though we feel it tending towards a procedure which, while not at the mercy of appearances, is not yet in conflict with them.
Andre Malraux
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Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
Andre Malraux
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There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.
Andre Malraux
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The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it.
Andre Malraux
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The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.
Andre Malraux
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A break in the established order is never the work of chance. It is the outcome of a man's resolve to turn life to account.
Andre Malraux
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The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
Andre Malraux
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To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.
Andre Malraux
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The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.
Andre Malraux
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He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.
Andre Malraux
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There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.
Andre Malraux
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All art is a revolt against man's fate.
Andre Malraux
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In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it.
Andre Malraux
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I don't argue with my enemies I explain to their children.
Andre Malraux
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Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
Andre Malraux
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