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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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One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.
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Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
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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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The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.
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The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
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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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Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.
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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 only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it.
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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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Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
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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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Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
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No one can endure his own solitude.
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He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.
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Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.
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