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The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.
Andre Malraux
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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
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Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
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The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.
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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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To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.
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The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.
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The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
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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 crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.
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In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it.
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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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War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
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He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.
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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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Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
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Here, reality is not subordinated to painting, indeed painting seems the handmaid of reality, though we feel it tending towards a procedure which, while not at the mercy of appearances, is not yet in conflict with them.
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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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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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One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.
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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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