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If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.

Andre Malraux

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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
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The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
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Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken.
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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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Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.
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Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.
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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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The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it.
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As for the outside world, the artist is confronted by what he sees but what he sees is primarily what he looks at.
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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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One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be.
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He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.
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If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?
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Surely that little pseudo-gothic church on Broadway, hidden amongst the skyscrapers, is symbolic of the age! On the whole face of the globe the civilization that has conquered it has failed to build a temple or a tomb.
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No one can endure his own solitude.
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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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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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Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
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The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.
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