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Some pictures are in the gallery because they belong to humanity and others because they belong to the United States.
Andre Malraux
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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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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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Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
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An art book is a museum without walls.
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The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.
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The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our own nothingness.
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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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The thrill of creation which we experience which we experience when we see a masterpiece is not unlike the feeling of the artist who created it such a work is a fragment of the world which he has annexed and which belongs to him alone.
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Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.
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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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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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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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All art is a revolt against man's fate.
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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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War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
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If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.
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He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.
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The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.
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An individualism which has got beyond the stage of hedonism tends to yield to the lure of the grandiose. It was not man, the individual, nor even the Supreme Being, that Robespierre set up against Christ it was that Leviathan, the Nation.
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There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.
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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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