Andre Malraux Quotes

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• The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.
• An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.
• And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
• All art is a revolt against man's fate.
• One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be.
• 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.
• The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.
• The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.
• The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even…
• Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.
• A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.
• 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…
• He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.
• The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.
• As for the outside world, the artist is confronted by what he sees; but what he sees is primarily what he looks at.
• Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
• 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…
• The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.
• To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.
• Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.

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