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Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
Andre Malraux
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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
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The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
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The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
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The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our own nothingness.
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One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.
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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
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In so far as he is a creator, the artist does not belong to a social group already moulded by a culture, but to a culture which he is by way of building up.
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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.
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Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily a person who responds to figures and landscapes. He is primarily one who loves pictures.
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You can only make art that talks to the masses when you have nothing to say to them.
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Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time.
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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.
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And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
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Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.
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Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
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If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.
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The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.
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Our civilization ... is not devaluing its awareness of the unknowable nor is it deifying it. It is the first civilization that has severed it from religion and superstition. In order to question it.
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If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?
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A large share of our art heritage is now derived from peoples whose idea of art was quite other than ours, and even from peoples to whom the very idea of art meant nothing.
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