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An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

Andre Malraux

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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.
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The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
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Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.
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The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.
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The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.
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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 mind supplies the idea of a nation, but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.
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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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The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.
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An art book is a museum without walls.
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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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Since 1789 history has had a new perspective, revolution being a successful revolt, and revolt a revolution that has failed.
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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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And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
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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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One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be.
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