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The men of my race arrive on wingless, eyeless ships.
— Andre Malraux
I don't argue with my enemies; I explain to their children.
— Andre Malraux
A break in the established order is never the work of chance. It is the outcome of a man's resolve to turn life to account.
— Andre Malraux
You can only make art that talks to the masses when you have nothing to say to them.
— Andre Malraux
Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
— Andre Malraux
The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.
— Andre Malraux
Since 1789 history has had a new perspective, revolution being a successful revolt, and revolt a revolution that has failed.
— Andre Malraux
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
What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
— Andre Malraux
Be carefulwith quotations, you can damn anything. — Andre Malraux
There's no such thing as a grown up person.
— Andre Malraux
I have heard of you- a kind of revolutionary. Hard to be a revolutionary in the deadly museum business.
— Thomas Hoving
He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.
— Andre Malraux
Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
— Andre Malraux
In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it.
— Andre Malraux
To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
— Andre Malraux
There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
— Andre Malraux
In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.
— Andre Malraux
Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved
— Andre Malraux
The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it.
— Andre Malraux
As for the outside world, the artist is confronted by what he sees; but what he sees is primarily what he looks at.
— Andre Malraux
Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time.
— Andre Malraux
A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.
— Andre Malraux
To understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it's better not to be a fish.
— Andre Malraux
An art book is a museum without walls.
— Andre Malraux
The mind supplies the idea of a nation, but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.
— Andre Malraux
If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.
— Andre Malraux
Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.
— Andre Malraux
War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
— Andre Malraux
No one can endure his own solitude.
— Andre Malraux
In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth ... Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose.
— Andre Malraux
An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.
— Andre Malraux
The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.
— Andre Malraux
The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
— Andre Malraux
Christ ... an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.
— Andre Malraux
One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be.
— Andre Malraux
If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?
— Andre Malraux
The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.
— Andre Malraux
Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
— Andre Malraux
Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.
— Andre Malraux
Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
— Andre Malraux
The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.
— Andre Malraux
The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
— Andre Malraux
Some pictures are in the gallery because they belong to humanity and others because they belong to the United States.
— Andre Malraux
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.
— Andre Malraux
Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
— Andre Malraux
Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken.
— Andre Malraux