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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
Andre Malraux
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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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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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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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Some pictures are in the gallery because they belong to humanity and others because they belong to the United States.
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Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.
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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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There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
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The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.
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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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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.
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The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.
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The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.
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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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To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.
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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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The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.
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There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.
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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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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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War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
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