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Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.
Andre Malraux
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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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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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The present age delights in unearthing a great man's secrets for one thing because we like to temper our admiration and also perhaps we have a vague hope of finding a clue to genius in such revelations.
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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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An individualism which has got beyond the stage of hedonism tends to yield to the lure of the grandiose. It was not man, the individual, nor even the Supreme Being, that Robespierre set up against Christ it was that Leviathan, the Nation.
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One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.
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There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.
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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 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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Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
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The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.
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Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.
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One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be.
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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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Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time.
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What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
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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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Athirst for personal salvation, the West forgets that many religions had but a vague notion of the life beyond the grave true, all great religions stake a claim on eternity, but not necessarily on man's eternal life.
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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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The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
Andre Malraux
The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.
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