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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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The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
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There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.
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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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If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.
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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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The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.
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No one can endure his own solitude.
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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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Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.
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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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Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
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