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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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All art is a revolt against man's fate.
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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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The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
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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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The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.
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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
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The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.
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Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved
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Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.
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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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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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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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The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but all-essential field, that the artist has to battle.
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There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.
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The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.
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Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.
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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 is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
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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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Since 1789 history has had a new perspective, revolution being a successful revolt, and revolt a revolution that has failed.
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