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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
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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 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.
Andre Malraux
Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.
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The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.
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You can only make art that talks to the masses when you have nothing to say to them.
Andre Malraux
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.
Andre Malraux
There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.
Andre Malraux
If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.
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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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The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.
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Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken.
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The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
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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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Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
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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.
Andre Malraux
The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it.
Andre Malraux
In so far as he is a creator, the artist does not belong to a social group already moulded by a culture, but to a culture which he is by way of building up.
Andre Malraux
The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
Andre Malraux
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.
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
