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An art book is a museum without walls.

~Andre Malraux

Topics: Art Book Museum Walls Without

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To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to which you are paying historic homage this evening is a painting which he has saved.

~Andre Malraux

Topics: Among Evening He Historic Homage Humblest Listening Masterpiece May Me Now Painting Paying Saved Say Them Want Which Who You

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Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.

~Andre Malraux

Topics: Against Art Fate Man Revolt

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Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.

~Andre Malraux

Topics: He Human Knows Made Man Scale Were Wishes World

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There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.

~Andre Malraux

Topics: Always China Intoxication Islam Need Opium West Woman

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Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.

~Andre Malraux

Topics: Does Genius Interpret Itself Much World

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The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.

~Andre Malraux

Topics: Attempt Beings Call Despise Force Hell Human Human Beings Themselves

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Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.

~Andre Malraux

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The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.

~Andre Malraux

Topics: Artist Become Created Crucial Discovery Had Himself Made Order Painting Private Seen Universe

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Author

Born: November 3rd, 1901

Died: November 23rd, 1976

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