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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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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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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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Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.
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The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.
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If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?
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If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.
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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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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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In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth. . . . Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose.
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All art is a revolt against man's fate.
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Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
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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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Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.
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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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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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The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
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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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Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale and he wishes that it were.
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