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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.
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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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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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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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.
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Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
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The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.
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There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.
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There's no such thing as a grown up person.
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The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.
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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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An art book is a museum without walls.
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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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A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.
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One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.
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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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If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?
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And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
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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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If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.
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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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