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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
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More quotes by Andre Malraux
An art book is a museum without walls.
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The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
Andre Malraux
Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale and he wishes that it were.
Andre Malraux
He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.
Andre Malraux
Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
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
I don't argue with my enemies I explain to their children.
Andre Malraux
There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.
Andre Malraux
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
To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
Andre Malraux
Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
Andre Malraux
To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.
Andre Malraux
The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.
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The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but all-essential field, that the artist has to battle.
Andre Malraux
Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken.
Andre Malraux
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 at the mercy of appearances, is not yet in conflict with them.
Andre Malraux
An individualism which has got beyond the stage of hedonism tends to yield to the lure of the grandiose. It was not man, the individual, nor even the Supreme Being, that Robespierre set up against Christ it was that Leviathan, the Nation.
Andre Malraux
If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.
Andre Malraux
Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.
Andre Malraux
What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
Andre Malraux
