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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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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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To understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it's better not to be a fish.
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Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken.
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Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.
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One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.
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War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
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The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.
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The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
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An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.
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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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An art book is a museum without walls.
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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 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.
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No one can endure his own solitude.
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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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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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There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.
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Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.
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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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Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.
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