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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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Georges-André Malraux
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Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
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To understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it's better not to be a fish.
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The mind supplies the idea of a nation, but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.
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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 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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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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An art book is a museum without walls.
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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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He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.
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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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You can only make art that talks to the masses when you have nothing to say to them.
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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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There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.
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The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.
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The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
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