Andre Malraux Quotes
"War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously."
- Andre Malraux
(Related: Peace, War, Questions)
"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."
- Andre Malraux
(Related: Evening, Listening, May, Now, Painting, Want)
"To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less."
- Andre Malraux
(Related: Nothing)
"There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman."
- Andre Malraux
(Related: Islam, Opium, Woman)
"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."
- Andre Malraux
(Related: Love, Time, History, Truth, Despair, End)
"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."
- Andre Malraux
(Related: Artist, Discovery, Order, Painting, Universe)
"The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell."
- Andre Malraux
(Related: Force, Hell)
"Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real."
- Andre Malraux
(Related: Nothing, Opium, Suffering)
"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."
- Andre Malraux
(Related: Successful, Ideas, Courage, Failure, Act, Difference, Risk)
"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."
- Andre Malraux
(Related: War, Fighting, Revolution)
"And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own."
- Andre Malraux
(Related: Destiny, Faces, Man)
"Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides."
- Andre Malraux
(Related: Man)
"Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it."
- Andre Malraux
(Related: Genius, World)
"Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were."
- Andre Malraux
(Related: Man, Wishes, World)
"An art book is a museum without walls."
- Andre Malraux
(Related: Art)
"Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only."
- Andre Malraux
(Related: Age, Music, May, Style)
"All art is a revolt against man's fate."
- Andre Malraux
(Related: Art, Fate, Man)
"Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism."
- Andre Malraux
(Related: Communism, Democracy)
"Art is a revolt against fate."
- Andre Malraux
(Related: Art, Fate)