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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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Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.
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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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What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
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Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale and he wishes that it were.
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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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The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.
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War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
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The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
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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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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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I don't argue with my enemies I explain to their children.
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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 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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Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
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The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.
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And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
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To understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it's better not to be a fish.
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Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken.
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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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