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Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.
Andre Malraux
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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
Art Critic
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Georges-André Malraux
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In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.
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Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.
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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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War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
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One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.
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Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time.
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There's no such thing as a grown up person.
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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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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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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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An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.
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I don't argue with my enemies I explain to their children.
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As for the outside world, the artist is confronted by what he sees but what he sees is primarily what he looks at.
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He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.
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All art is a revolt against man's fate.
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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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If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?
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