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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
Art Critic
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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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An individualism which has got beyond the stage of hedonism tends to yield to the lure of the grandiose. It was not man, the individual, nor even the Supreme Being, that Robespierre set up against Christ it was that Leviathan, the Nation.
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Some pictures are in the gallery because they belong to humanity and others because they belong to the United States.
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There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
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Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
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A large share of our art heritage is now derived from peoples whose idea of art was quite other than ours, and even from peoples to whom the very idea of art meant nothing.
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There's no such thing as a grown up person.
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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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One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.
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You can only make art that talks to the masses when you have nothing to say to them.
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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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What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
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Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale and he wishes that it were.
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Athirst for personal salvation, the West forgets that many religions had but a vague notion of the life beyond the grave true, all great religions stake a claim on eternity, but not necessarily on man's eternal life.
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Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken.
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An art book is a museum without walls.
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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
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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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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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The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.
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