Andre Malraux Quotes


19 Andre Malraux quotes:



"What is man? A miserable little pile of secrets"
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"Some pictures are in the gallery because they belong to humanity and others because they belong to the United States."
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"Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it."
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"Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only."
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"All art is a revolt against man's fate."
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"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."
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"Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real."
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"Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides."
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"An art book is a museum without walls."
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"There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman."
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"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."
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"Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were."
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"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."
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"And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own."
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"Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only"
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"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"
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"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."
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"To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less."
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"Art is a revolt against fate."
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