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The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.
Andre Malraux
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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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Georges-André Malraux
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Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.
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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
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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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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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An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.
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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 terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.
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Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
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If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.
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A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.
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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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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.
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Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time.
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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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There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.
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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.
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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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Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
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The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.
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The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
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