All Andre Malraux Quotes
- The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods. Century
- An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please. Artist
- And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own. Destiny
- All art is a revolt against man's fate. All
- One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be. Always Makes
- 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. Consists
- The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny. Death
- The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis. Art
- The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even… Anyone
- Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do. Get People
- A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question. Asking
- 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… All
- He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream. Dream
- The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be. Century
- As for the outside world, the artist is confronted by what he sees; but what he sees is primarily what he looks at. Artist
- Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing. Action
- 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… Alone
- The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world. Art
- To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice. Feel
- Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only. Age
- The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten. Beaten
- One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say. Art
- Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted. Always Ends
- 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. Account
- 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… Artist