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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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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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In ceasing to subordinate creative power to any supreme value, modern art has brought home to us the presence of that creative power throughout the whole history of art.
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If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?
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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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An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.
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Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time.
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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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Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
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No one can endure his own solitude.
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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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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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One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.
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The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.
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I don't argue with my enemies I explain to their children.
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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
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Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
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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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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.
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A break in the established order is never the work of chance. It is the outcome of a man's resolve to turn life to account.
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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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