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To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.
Andre Malraux
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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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In so far as he is a creator, the artist does not belong to a social group already moulded by a culture, but to a culture which he is by way of building up.
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The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
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If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.
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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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There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.
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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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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 most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
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War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
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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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Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken.
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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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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
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Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
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To understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it's better not to be a fish.
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The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.
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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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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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Our civilization ... is not devaluing its awareness of the unknowable nor is it deifying it. It is the first civilization that has severed it from religion and superstition. In order to question it.
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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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