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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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More quotes by Andre Malraux
In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it.
Andre Malraux
Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
Andre Malraux
A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.
Andre Malraux
The present age delights in unearthing a great man's secrets for one thing because we like to temper our admiration and also perhaps we have a vague hope of finding a clue to genius in such revelations.
Andre Malraux
He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.
Andre Malraux
The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.
Andre Malraux
One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be.
Andre Malraux
Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional responses to a problem that remains intact.
Andre Malraux
As for the outside world, the artist is confronted by what he sees but what he sees is primarily what he looks at.
Andre Malraux
Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken.
Andre Malraux
To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
Andre Malraux
War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
Andre Malraux
No one can endure his own solitude.
Andre Malraux
One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.
Andre Malraux
I don't argue with my enemies I explain to their children.
Andre Malraux
If modern painters feel qualms about applying the term masterpiece to describe a work of capital importance, this is because it has come to convey a notion of perfection: a notion that leads to much confusion when applied to artists other than those who made perfection their ideal.
Andre Malraux
There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
Andre Malraux
The mind supplies the idea of a nation, but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.
Andre Malraux
The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.
Andre Malraux
Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.
Andre Malraux
