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The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
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 present age delights in unearthing a great man's secrets for one thing because we like to temper our admiration and also perhaps we have a vague hope of finding a clue to genius in such revelations.
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Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily a person who responds to figures and landscapes. He is primarily one who loves pictures.
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The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.
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Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.
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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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What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
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The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it.
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A large share of our art heritage is now derived from peoples whose idea of art was quite other than ours, and even from peoples to whom the very idea of art meant nothing.
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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
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The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.
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There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.
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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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No one can endure his own solitude.
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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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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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Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.
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One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.
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There's no such thing as a grown up person.
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The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.
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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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