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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 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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If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.
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There's no such thing as a grown up person.
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Though man's feeling for the other-worldly often has recourse to solitude, solitude does not foster its development rather, it is nourished by communion, to which the church is more propitious than the cemetery.
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There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.
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No one can endure his own solitude.
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The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.
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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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There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
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You can only make art that talks to the masses when you have nothing to say to them.
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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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Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved
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The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.
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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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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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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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Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
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