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The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.

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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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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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An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.
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Since 1789 history has had a new perspective, revolution being a successful revolt, and revolt a revolution that has failed.
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Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken.
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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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Some pictures are in the gallery because they belong to humanity and others because they belong to the United States.
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An art book is a museum without walls.
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He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.
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The mind supplies the idea of a nation, but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.
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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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The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.
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