André Malraux - Time Quotes

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Remote from ourselves in dream and in time, India belongs to the Ancient Orient of our soul... What is Zeus, compared with Shiva? The only god of antiquity whose language is worthy of India is the god without temples – Fate.

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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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On this earth of ours where everything is subject to the passing of time, one thing only is both subject to time and yet victorious over it: the work of art.

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Our characteristic response to the mutilated statue, the bronze dug up from the earth, is revealing. It is not that we prefer time-worn bas-reliefs, or rusted statuettes as such, nor is it the vestiges of death that grip us in them, but those of life. Mutilation is the scar left by the struggle with Time, and a reminder of it — Time which is as much a part of ancient works of art as the material they are made of, and thrusts up through the fissures, from a dark underworld, where all is at once chaos and determinism.

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Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time.

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