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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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Since 1789 history has had a new perspective, revolution being a successful revolt, and revolt a revolution that has failed.
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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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To understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it's better not to be a fish.
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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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In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.
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The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.
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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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The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
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Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
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All art is a revolt against man's fate.
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Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time.
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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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Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
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Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
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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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The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.
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War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
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If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.
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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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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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