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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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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.
Andre Malraux
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.
Andre Malraux
One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be.
Andre Malraux
One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.
Andre Malraux
Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily a person who responds to figures and landscapes. He is primarily one who loves pictures.
Andre Malraux
To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
Andre Malraux
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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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 true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.
Andre Malraux
The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.
Andre Malraux
In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.
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The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
Andre Malraux
The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.
Andre Malraux
A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.
Andre Malraux
The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.
Andre Malraux
Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.
Andre Malraux
The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
Andre Malraux
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.
Andre Malraux
The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but all-essential field, that the artist has to battle.
Andre Malraux
An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.
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