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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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Surely that little pseudo-gothic church on Broadway, hidden amongst the skyscrapers, is symbolic of the age! On the whole face of the globe the civilization that has conquered it has failed to build a temple or a tomb.
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In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.
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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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Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.
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The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.
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The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
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A break in the established order is never the work of chance. It is the outcome of a man's resolve to turn life to account.
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Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
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The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but all-essential field, that the artist has to battle.
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As for the outside world, the artist is confronted by what he sees but what he sees is primarily what he looks at.
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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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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
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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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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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No one can endure his own solitude.
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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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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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