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There's no such thing as a grown up person.
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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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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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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And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
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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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Athirst for personal salvation, the West forgets that many religions had but a vague notion of the life beyond the grave true, all great religions stake a claim on eternity, but not necessarily on man's eternal life.
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The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.
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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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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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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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I don't argue with my enemies I explain to their children.
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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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Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time.
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The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.
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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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An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.
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Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
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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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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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