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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.
Andre Malraux
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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.
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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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All art is a revolt against man's fate.
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War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
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The thrill of creation which we experience which we experience when we see a masterpiece is not unlike the feeling of the artist who created it such a work is a fragment of the world which he has annexed and which belongs to him alone.
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Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
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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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Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
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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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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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You can only make art that talks to the masses when you have nothing to say to them.
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The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it.
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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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Surely that little pseudo-gothic church on Broadway, hidden amongst the skyscrapers, is symbolic of the age! On the whole face of the globe the civilization that has conquered it has failed to build a temple or a tomb.
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