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Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
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 world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.
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Here, reality is not subordinated to painting, indeed painting seems the handmaid of reality, though we feel it tending towards a procedure which, while not at the mercy of appearances, is not yet in conflict with them.
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If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.
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Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.
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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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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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Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.
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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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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.
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And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
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No one can endure his own solitude.
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Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
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Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
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The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
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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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