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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.
Andre Malraux
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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.
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Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
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What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
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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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Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.
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The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
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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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If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?
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History may clarify our understanding of the supreme work of art, but can never account for it completely for the Time of art is not the same as the Time of history.
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If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.
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Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
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I don't argue with my enemies I explain to their children.
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Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
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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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