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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
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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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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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Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale and he wishes that it were.
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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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The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.
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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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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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If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.
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An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.
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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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Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.
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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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War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
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Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.
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Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.
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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
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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 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.
Andre Malraux
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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