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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.
Andre Malraux
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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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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 only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it.
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If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.
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Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.
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I don't argue with my enemies I explain to their children.
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Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved
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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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If modern painters feel qualms about applying the term masterpiece to describe a work of capital importance, this is because it has come to convey a notion of perfection: a notion that leads to much confusion when applied to artists other than those who made perfection their ideal.
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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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Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily a person who responds to figures and landscapes. He is primarily one who loves pictures.
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The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.
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