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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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Film Director
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Georges-André Malraux
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The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.
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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 true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.
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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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The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.
Andre Malraux
If modern painters feel qualms about applying the term masterpiece to describe a work of capital importance, this is because it has come to convey a notion of perfection: a notion that leads to much confusion when applied to artists other than those who made perfection their ideal.
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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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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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The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it.
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To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
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Since 1789 history has had a new perspective, revolution being a successful revolt, and revolt a revolution that has failed.
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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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War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
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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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To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.
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Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
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The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
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You can only make art that talks to the masses when you have nothing to say to them.
Andre Malraux
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.
Andre Malraux
One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.
Andre Malraux
