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

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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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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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To understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it's better not to be a fish.
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An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.
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If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?
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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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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
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To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.
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There's no such thing as a grown up person.
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What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
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No one can endure his own solitude.
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Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
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The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.
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Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.
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One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.
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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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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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Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.
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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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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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Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
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