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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.
Andre Malraux
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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
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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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He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.
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War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
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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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