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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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Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken.
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The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.
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The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
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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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Every young man's heart is a graveyard in which are inscribed the names of a thousand dead artists but whose only actual denizens are a few mighty, often antagonistic, ghosts.
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As for the outside world, the artist is confronted by what he sees but what he sees is primarily what he looks at.
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If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.
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And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
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The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
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There's no such thing as a grown up person.
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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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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
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Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
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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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The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.
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The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.
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A break in the established order is never the work of chance. It is the outcome of a man's resolve to turn life to account.
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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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If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?
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The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.
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