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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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Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
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He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.
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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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There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
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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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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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You can only make art that talks to the masses when you have nothing to say to them.
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Every young man's heart is a graveyard in which are inscribed the names of a thousand dead artists but whose only actual denizens are a few mighty, often antagonistic, ghosts.
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All art is a revolt against man's fate.
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An art book is a museum without walls.
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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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Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.
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