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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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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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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 twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.
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Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
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Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time.
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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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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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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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There's no such thing as a grown up person.
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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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The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
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If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.
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An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.
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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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Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
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The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.
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The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but all-essential field, that the artist has to battle.
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One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.
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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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Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.
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