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All art is a revolt against man's fate.
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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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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The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.
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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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In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it.
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What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
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Athirst for personal salvation, the West forgets that many religions had but a vague notion of the life beyond the grave true, all great religions stake a claim on eternity, but not necessarily on man's eternal life.
Andre Malraux
I don't argue with my enemies I explain to their children.
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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
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An individualism which has got beyond the stage of hedonism tends to yield to the lure of the grandiose. It was not man, the individual, nor even the Supreme Being, that Robespierre set up against Christ it was that Leviathan, the Nation.
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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
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Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.
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An art book is a museum without walls.
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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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Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.
Andre Malraux
If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?
Andre Malraux
The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.
Andre Malraux
In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth. . . . Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose.
Andre Malraux
There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.
Andre Malraux
If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.
Andre Malraux
If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.
Andre Malraux
