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Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.

Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.

Andre Malraux
Struggle, Roots, Creation

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.

Andre Malraux
Struggle, Artist, Men
"Voices of Silence". Book by Andre Malraux, Part III, Chapter III, 1951.

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.

Andre Malraux
Art, Struggle, Dark
"The Voices of Silence". Book by Andre Malraux, Doubleday, Part IV, Chapter VII, 1953.

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