Andre Malraux Famous Quotes & Sayings
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No one can endure his own solitude.

War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.

If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.

The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.

In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth ... Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose.

The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.

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

The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.

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

The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.

Christ ... an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.

One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be.

If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?

The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.

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.

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

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

The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.

The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.

To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.

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

Some pictures are in the gallery because they belong to humanity and others because they belong to the United States.

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.

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

Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken.