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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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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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If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.
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Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time.
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Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.
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The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
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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.
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What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
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Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
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Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale and he wishes that it were.
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Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.
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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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Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
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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 twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.
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To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.
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He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.
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There's no such thing as a grown up person.
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The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.
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Our civilization ... is not devaluing its awareness of the unknowable nor is it deifying it. It is the first civilization that has severed it from religion and superstition. In order to question it.
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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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