All Andre Malraux Quotes
- 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
- Here, reality is not subordinated to painting, indeed painting seems the handmaid of reality, though we feel it tending towards a procedure which, while not… Appearance
- 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… Artist
- Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily a person who… Figures
- Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides. Hides
- 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… Abilities
- There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman. China
- An art book is a museum without walls. Art
- Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it. Deepened
- The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars;… Been
- I don't argue with my enemies; I explain to their children. Argue