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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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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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Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time.
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Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.
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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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Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale and he wishes that it were.
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Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
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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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There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.
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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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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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Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
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The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
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War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
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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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Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.
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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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If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.
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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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No one can endure his own solitude.
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The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.
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