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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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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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There's no such thing as a grown up person.
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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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Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.
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I don't argue with my enemies I explain to their children.
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A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.
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One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.
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In so far as he is a creator, the artist does not belong to a social group already moulded by a culture, but to a culture which he is by way of building up.
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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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All art is a revolt against man's fate.
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Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.
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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.
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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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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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The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.
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The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
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If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.
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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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He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.
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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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