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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
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 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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Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken.
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The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.
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No one can endure his own solitude.
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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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Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
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In ceasing to subordinate creative power to any supreme value, modern art has brought home to us the presence of that creative power throughout the whole history of art.
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The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
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The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it.
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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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Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time.
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Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional responses to a problem that remains intact.
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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.
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War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
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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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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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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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The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
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