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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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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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The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
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One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.
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The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.
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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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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
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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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The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.
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There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.
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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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The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.
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To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.
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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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The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
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