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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
Art Critic
Art Historian
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Film Director
Film Editor
Journalist
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France
Georges-André Malraux
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Georges-Andre Malraux
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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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Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
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Our civilization ... is not devaluing its awareness of the unknowable nor is it deifying it. It is the first civilization that has severed it from religion and superstition. In order to question it.
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A break in the established order is never the work of chance. It is the outcome of a man's resolve to turn life to account.
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An art book is a museum without walls.
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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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In ceasing to subordinate creative power to any supreme value, modern art has brought home to us the presence of that creative power throughout the whole history of art.
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Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.
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All art is a revolt against man's fate.
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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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The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
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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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To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.
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Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale and he wishes that it were.
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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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He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.
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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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