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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.
Andre Malraux
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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
Art Critic
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Film Director
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Georges-André Malraux
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Georges-Andre Malraux
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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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The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.
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Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.
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There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
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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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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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An art book is a museum without walls.
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In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.
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Every young man's heart is a graveyard in which are inscribed the names of a thousand dead artists but whose only actual denizens are a few mighty, often antagonistic, ghosts.
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He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.
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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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The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.
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The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.
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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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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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The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our own nothingness.
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