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Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
Andre Malraux
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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
Art Critic
Art Historian
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Film Director
Film Editor
Journalist
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France
Georges-André Malraux
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All art is a revolt against man's fate.
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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
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He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.
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The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.
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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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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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An art book is a museum without walls.
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Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.
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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 twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.
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In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.
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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 is only one: to be the conqueror.
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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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If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.
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The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.
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War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
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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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Athirst for personal salvation, the West forgets that many religions had but a vague notion of the life beyond the grave true, all great religions stake a claim on eternity, but not necessarily on man's eternal life.
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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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