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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 art book is a museum without walls.
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In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth. . . . Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose.
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An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.
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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 most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
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I don't argue with my enemies I explain to their children.
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Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.
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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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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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War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
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If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.
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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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Since 1789 history has had a new perspective, revolution being a successful revolt, and revolt a revolution that has failed.
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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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The thrill of creation which we experience which we experience when we see a masterpiece is not unlike the feeling of the artist who created it such a work is a fragment of the world which he has annexed and which belongs to him alone.
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The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
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The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.
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The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our own nothingness.
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The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.
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