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The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.
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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A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.
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The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
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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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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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Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
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War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
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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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If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.
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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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And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
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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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Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
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An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.
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The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but all-essential field, that the artist has to battle.
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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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There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
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Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.
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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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Some pictures are in the gallery because they belong to humanity and others because they belong to the United States.
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