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The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.
Andre Malraux
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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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Film Director
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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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To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.
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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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There's no such thing as a grown up person.
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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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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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The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
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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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Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
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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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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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Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.
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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.
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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
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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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A break in the established order is never the work of chance. It is the outcome of a man's resolve to turn life to account.
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And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
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Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.
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