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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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War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
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If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.
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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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He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.
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What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
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Surely that little pseudo-gothic church on Broadway, hidden amongst the skyscrapers, is symbolic of the age! On the whole face of the globe the civilization that has conquered it has failed to build a temple or a tomb.
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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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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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The truth of a man is first and foremost 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 true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.
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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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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
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Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.
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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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The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
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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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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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If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?
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The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
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