Andre Malraux Quotes

» To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

» And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.

» An art book is a museum without walls.

» 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.

» Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.

» Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

» Art is a revolt against fate.

» Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

» War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.

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

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

» Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.

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

» 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.

» The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

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

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

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

» 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.

» Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.

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