Andre Malraux Quotes
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
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.
A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.
In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.
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.
To understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it's better not to be a fish.
In so far as he is a creator, the artist does not belong to a social group already moulded by a culture, but to a culture which he is by way of building up.
The mind supplies the idea of a nation, but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.
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.
Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be.
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.
Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.
In ceasing to subordinate creative power to any supreme value, modern art has brought home to us the presence of that creative power throughout the whole history of art.
Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it.
Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
Every young man's heart is a graveyard in which are inscribed the names of a thousand dead artists but whose only actual denizens are a few mighty, often antagonistic, ghosts.
