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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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Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.
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Some pictures are in the gallery because they belong to humanity and others because they belong to the United States.
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The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.
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There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.
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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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If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.
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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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Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
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The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.
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The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
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If modern painters feel qualms about applying the term masterpiece to describe a work of capital importance, this is because it has come to convey a notion of perfection: a notion that leads to much confusion when applied to artists other than those who made perfection their ideal.
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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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The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
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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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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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