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Since 1789 history has had a new perspective, revolution being a successful revolt, and revolt a revolution that has failed.
Andre Malraux
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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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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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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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Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.
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Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.
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The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.
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An art book is a museum without walls.
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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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A break in the established order is never the work of chance. It is the outcome of a man's resolve to turn life to account.
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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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Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved
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If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.
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Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional responses to a problem that remains intact.
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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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The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
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