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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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And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
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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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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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No one can endure his own solitude.
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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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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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Since 1789 history has had a new perspective, revolution being a successful revolt, and revolt a revolution that has failed.
Andre Malraux
I don't argue with my enemies I explain to their children.
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Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
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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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The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.
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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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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
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History may clarify our understanding of the supreme work of art, but can never account for it completely for the Time of art is not the same as the Time of history.
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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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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
If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.
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
The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
Andre Malraux
To understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it's better not to be a fish.
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