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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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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.
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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
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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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The present age delights in unearthing a great man's secrets for one thing because we like to temper our admiration and also perhaps we have a vague hope of finding a clue to genius in such revelations.
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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.
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One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.
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The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.
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Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
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A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.
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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.
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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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Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved
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The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.
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The thrill of creation which we experience which we experience when we see a masterpiece is not unlike the feeling of the artist who created it such a work is a fragment of the world which he has annexed and which belongs to him alone.
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Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.
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The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.
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History may clarify our understanding of the supreme work of art, but can never account for it completely for the Time of art is not the same as the Time of history.
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To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.
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