All Andre Malraux Quotes
- 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
- The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man. Basic
- 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… Actual
- Even the West has known the architecture of empty space, whose object, for thousands of years, has been less to construct divine houses, than to… Architecture
- The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it. Art
- Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken. Beautiful
- There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror. Conqueror
- The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides. Firsts
- Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything. Careful
- Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were. Human
- Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real. Aside
- War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously. Funny
- There's no such thing as a grown up person. Grown
- If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft. Cannot Shape
- The mind supplies the idea of a nation, but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams. Community
- You can only make art that talks to the masses when you have nothing to say to them. Art