Andre Malraux Quotes (30 Quotes)


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

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

    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.


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


    There has been talk of the risks this painting took by leaving the Louvre. But the risks taken by the boys who landed one day in Normandy-to say nothing of those who had preceded them 25 years before-were much more certain.


    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.

    In the course of history, all empires have been created with premeditation, by an effort often sustained over several generations. Every power has been Roman to a degree. The United States is the first nation to become the most powerful in the world without having sought to be so. Its exceptional energy and organization have never been oriented toward conquest.

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

    The thrill of creation which we experience which we experience when we see a masterpiece is not unlike the feeling of the artist who created it such a work is a fragment of the world which he has annexed and which belongs to him alone.

    Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

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

    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.


    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.

    Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love and of thought, which, in the course of centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved.

    War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.

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

    One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.

    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.

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

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

    Be careful, -- with quotations you can damn anything.

    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.

    The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness

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

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

    Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.


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