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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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If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.
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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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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 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 artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
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And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
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