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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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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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Since 1789 history has had a new perspective, revolution being a successful revolt, and revolt a revolution that has failed.
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If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?
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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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And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
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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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Our civilization ... is not devaluing its awareness of the unknowable nor is it deifying it. It is the first civilization that has severed it from religion and superstition. In order to question it.
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There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.
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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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Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
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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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One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.
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The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.
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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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Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.
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War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
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No one can endure his own solitude.
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