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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
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An art book is a museum without walls.
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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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The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.
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Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
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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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Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale and he wishes that it were.
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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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Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.
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What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
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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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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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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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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.
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There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
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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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You can only make art that talks to the masses when you have nothing to say to them.
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The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
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The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.
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