"One cannot create an art that speaks to me when one has nothing to say."

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André Malraux

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" The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival. "
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" What is man? A miserable little pile of secrets. "
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" Art is a revolt against fate. "
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" The sons of torture victims make good terrorists. "
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" No one can endure his own solitude. "
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" If a man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity? "
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" Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the ent... "
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" Our civilization is not devaluing its awareness of the unknowable; nor is it deifying it. ... "
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" Freedom is not an exchange, it is freedom. "
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" A large share of our art heritage is now derived from peoples whose idea of art was quite ... "
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" The human mind invents its Puss-in-Boots and its coaches that change into pumpkins at midn... "
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" The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against... "
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" In ceasing to subordinate creative power to any supreme value, modern art has brought home... "
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" History may clarify our understanding of the supreme work of art, but can never account fo... "
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" The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell. "
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" One cannot create an art that speaks to me when one has nothing to say. "
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" Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time. "
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