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Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.
Andre Malraux
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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
Art Critic
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Georges-André Malraux
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More quotes by Andre Malraux
Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.
Andre Malraux
The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
Andre Malraux
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
Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time.
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The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.
Andre Malraux
The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it.
Andre Malraux
Our civilization ... is not devaluing its awareness of the unknowable nor is it deifying it. It is the first civilization that has severed it from religion and superstition. In order to question it.
Andre Malraux
A large share of our art heritage is now derived from peoples whose idea of art was quite other than ours, and even from peoples to whom the very idea of art meant nothing.
Andre Malraux
One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.
Andre Malraux
History may clarify our understanding of the supreme work of art, but can never account for it completely for the Time of art is not the same as the Time of history.
Andre Malraux
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
War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
Andre Malraux
Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
Andre Malraux
An art book is a museum without walls.
Andre Malraux
The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
Andre Malraux
Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale and he wishes that it were.
Andre Malraux
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 it such a work is a fragment of the world which he has annexed and which belongs to him alone.
Andre Malraux
Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.
Andre Malraux
There's no such thing as a grown up person.
Andre Malraux
If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.
Andre Malraux
