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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.

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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.
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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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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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The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.
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If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.
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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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Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
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The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
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History may clarify our understanding of the supreme work of art, but can never account for it completely for the Time of art is not the same as the Time of history.
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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 present age delights in unearthing a great man's secrets for one thing because we like to temper our admiration and also perhaps we have a vague hope of finding a clue to genius in such revelations.
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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 ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but all-essential field, that the artist has to battle.
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No one can endure his own solitude.
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What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
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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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You can only make art that talks to the masses when you have nothing to say to them.
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There's no such thing as a grown up person.
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