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André Malraux DSO (French: [ɑ̃dʁe malʁo]; 3 November 1901 – 23 November 1976) was a French novelist, art theorist and Minister of Cultural Affairs. Malraux's novel La Condition Humaine (Man's Fate) (1933) won the Prix Goncourt. He was appointed by President Charles de Gaulle as Minister of Information (1945–46) and subsequently as France's first Minister of Cultural Affairs during de Gaulle's presidency (1959–69).

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In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.

Depth, Destiny, Important, Men, Questionings, Realm

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.

Struggle, Artist, Men, Battle, Limited

Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.

Converted, Ends, Religion, Youth

A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.

Believe, Believes, Imposter, Leader, Political, Problems

The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.

Firsts, Foremost, Hides, Lying, Man, Men

The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.

Civilization, Except, Machines, Men, Teach

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

Art, Culture, Enabled, Love, Men

In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth. . . . Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose.

Accidents, Art, Choose, Firsts, Heirs, Time

To understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it's better not to be a fish.

Aquarium, Aquariums, Fish, Fishes, Like, Looks

There's no such thing as a grown up person.

Grown, Nature, Person, Persons, Thing

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.

Age, Build, Church, Civilization, Globe

Here, reality is not subordinated to painting, indeed painting seems the handmaid of reality, though we feel it tending towards a procedure which, while not at the mercy of appearances, is not yet in conflict with them.

Appearances, Criticism, Painting, Reality, Subordinated, Towards

The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.

Century, Firsts, Spiritual, Twenties

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.

Artist, Discovery, Order, Painting, Universe

The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.

Destiny, Life, Life And Death, Terrible, Transforms

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.

Fifty, Fighting, War, Winning

An art book is a museum without walls.

Art, Book, Museum, Wall, Walls

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.

Art, Understanding, May, Time, Work, Account

The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.

Art, Immortality, Metamorphosis, World

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

Art, Dares, Discovers, Freedom, Genius, Please

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