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There's no such thing as a grown up person.

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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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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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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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Some pictures are in the gallery because they belong to humanity and others because they belong to the United States.
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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 terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.
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If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?
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Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
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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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The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.
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The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.
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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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To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.
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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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There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.
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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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All art is a revolt against man's fate.
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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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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 truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.
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The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but all-essential field, that the artist has to battle.
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