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War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
Andre Malraux
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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.
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The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.
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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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If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?
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The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
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An individualism which has got beyond the stage of hedonism tends to yield to the lure of the grandiose. It was not man, the individual, nor even the Supreme Being, that Robespierre set up against Christ it was that Leviathan, the Nation.
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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
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Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken.
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What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
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History may clarify our understanding of the supreme work of art, but can never account for it completely for the Time of art is not the same as the Time of history.
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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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You can only make art that talks to the masses when you have nothing to say to them.
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To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.
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Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.
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In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.
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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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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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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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In so far as he is a creator, the artist does not belong to a social group already moulded by a culture, but to a culture which he is by way of building up.
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