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Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.
Andre Malraux
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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
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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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An art book is a museum without walls.
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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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Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
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The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.
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The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.
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Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.
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Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
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Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
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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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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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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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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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