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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
Art Critic
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Film Director
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Paris
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Some pictures are in the gallery because they belong to humanity and others because they belong to the United States.
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Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional responses to a problem that remains intact.
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The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
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Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.
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Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.
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One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.
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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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The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.
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He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.
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There's no such thing as a grown up person.
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All art is a revolt against man's fate.
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The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.
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The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
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In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth. . . . Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose.
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One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be.
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The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.
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I don't argue with my enemies I explain to their children.
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No one can endure his own solitude.
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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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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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