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Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.

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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
Art Critic
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Georges-André Malraux
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Athirst for personal salvation, the West forgets that many religions had but a vague notion of the life beyond the grave true, all great religions stake a claim on eternity, but not necessarily on man's eternal life.
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War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
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Our civilization ... is not devaluing its awareness of the unknowable nor is it deifying it. It is the first civilization that has severed it from religion and superstition. In order to question it.
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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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A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.
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Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
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Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.
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Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.
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If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.
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Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time.
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The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.
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An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.
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The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.
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In so far as he is a creator, the artist does not belong to a social group already moulded by a culture, but to a culture which he is by way of building up.
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If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?
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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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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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Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.
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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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I don't argue with my enemies I explain to their children.
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