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The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.
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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I don't argue with my enemies I explain to their children.
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If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?
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Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.
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Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
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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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The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
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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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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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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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If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.
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Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time.
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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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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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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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Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
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Since 1789 history has had a new perspective, revolution being a successful revolt, and revolt a revolution that has failed.
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Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken.
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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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There's no such thing as a grown up person.
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What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
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