Quote

In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.

Andre Malraux

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
Art Critic
Art Historian
Author
Film Director
Film Editor
Journalist
Novelist
Politician
Screenwriter
Writer
Paris
France
Georges-André Malraux
Andre Malraux
Georges-Andre Malraux
Humans
Questionings
Important
Questioning
Men
Realm
Realms
Depth
Destiny
Answers
Human

More quotes by Andre Malraux

Image
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.
Andre Malraux
Image
Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time.
Andre Malraux
Image
Surely that little pseudo-gothic church on Broadway, hidden amongst the skyscrapers, is symbolic of the age! On the whole face of the globe the civilization that has conquered it has failed to build a temple or a tomb.
Andre Malraux
Image
Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
Andre Malraux
Image
To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.
Andre Malraux
Image
If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.
Andre Malraux
Image
The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.
Andre Malraux
Image
There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
Andre Malraux
Image
In ceasing to subordinate creative power to any supreme value, modern art has brought home to us the presence of that creative power throughout the whole history of art.
Andre Malraux
Image
Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
Andre Malraux
Image
Since 1789 history has had a new perspective, revolution being a successful revolt, and revolt a revolution that has failed.
Andre Malraux
Image
One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.
Andre Malraux
Image
Though man's feeling for the other-worldly often has recourse to solitude, solitude does not foster its development rather, it is nourished by communion, to which the church is more propitious than the cemetery.
Andre Malraux
Image
Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
Andre Malraux
Image
The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.
Andre Malraux
Image
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 culture which he is by way of building up.
Andre Malraux
Image
If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.
Andre Malraux
Image
There's no such thing as a grown up person.
Andre Malraux
Image
Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
Andre Malraux
Image
Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
Andre Malraux