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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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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
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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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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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The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.
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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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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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There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
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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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An individualism which has got beyond the stage of hedonism tends to yield to the lure of the grandiose. It was not man, the individual, nor even the Supreme Being, that Robespierre set up against Christ it was that Leviathan, the Nation.
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If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.
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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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Surely that little pseudo-gothic church on Broadway, hidden amongst the skyscrapers, is symbolic of the age! On the whole face of the globe the civilization that has conquered it has failed to build a temple or a tomb.
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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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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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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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You can only make art that talks to the masses when you have nothing to say to them.
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Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
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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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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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There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.
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