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What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
Andre Malraux
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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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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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Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
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Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
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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.
Andre Malraux
Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken.
Andre Malraux
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
The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
Andre Malraux
Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
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If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.
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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.
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If modern painters feel qualms about applying the term masterpiece to describe a work of capital importance, this is because it has come to convey a notion of perfection: a notion that leads to much confusion when applied to artists other than those who made perfection their ideal.
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The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.
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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
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Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale and he wishes that it were.
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There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.
Andre Malraux
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
A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.
Andre Malraux
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
Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.
Andre Malraux
Every young man's heart is a graveyard in which are inscribed the names of a thousand dead artists but whose only actual denizens are a few mighty, often antagonistic, ghosts.
Andre Malraux
