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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.
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 artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.
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War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
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Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.
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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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Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.
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And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
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As for the outside world, the artist is confronted by what he sees but what he sees is primarily what he looks at.
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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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In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it.
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The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.
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The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
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