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And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
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 understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it's better not to be a fish.
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The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.
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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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If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.
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Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
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If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.
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The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.
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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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In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.
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The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
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Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.
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The thrill of creation which we experience which we experience when we see a masterpiece is not unlike the feeling of the artist who created it such a work is a fragment of the world which he has annexed and which belongs to him alone.
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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 true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.
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