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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
Art Critic
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Film Director
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Georges-André Malraux
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No one can endure his own solitude.
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War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
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One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.
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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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Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
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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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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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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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Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily a person who responds to figures and landscapes. He is primarily one who loves pictures.
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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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History may clarify our understanding of the supreme work of art, but can never account for it completely for the Time of art is not the same as the Time of history.
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If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.
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Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
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To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.
Andre Malraux
You can only make art that talks to the masses when you have nothing to say to them.
Andre Malraux
In so far as he is a creator, the artist does not belong to a social group already moulded by a culture, but to a culture which he is by way of building up.
Andre Malraux
The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
Andre Malraux
Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken.
Andre Malraux
The present age delights in unearthing a great man's secrets for one thing because we like to temper our admiration and also perhaps we have a vague hope of finding a clue to genius in such revelations.
Andre Malraux
If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?
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