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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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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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There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.
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If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.
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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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As for the outside world, the artist is confronted by what he sees but what he sees is primarily what he looks at.
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Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
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There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
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One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.
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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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The mind supplies the idea of a nation, but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.
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War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
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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 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.
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The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
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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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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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To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.
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I don't argue with my enemies I explain to their children.
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The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.
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Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
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