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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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A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.
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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 mind supplies the idea of a nation, but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.
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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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There's no such thing as a grown up person.
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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
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No one can endure his own solitude.
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The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.
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In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it.
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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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