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The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.
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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What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
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Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.
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The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.
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Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
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One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.
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The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it.
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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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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
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The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.
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Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional responses to a problem that remains intact.
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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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A large share of our art heritage is now derived from peoples whose idea of art was quite other than ours, and even from peoples to whom the very idea of art meant nothing.
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There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.
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To understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it's better not to be a fish.
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Though man's feeling for the other-worldly often has recourse to solitude, solitude does not foster its development rather, it is nourished by communion, to which the church is more propitious than the cemetery.
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Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.
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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.
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The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our own nothingness.
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All art is a revolt against man's fate.
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