Quote

If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.

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
Art
Work
Make
Life

More quotes by Andre Malraux

Image
One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be.
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
If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?
Andre Malraux
Image
The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.
Andre Malraux
Image
Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
Andre Malraux
Image
Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
Andre Malraux
Image
Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
Andre Malraux
Image
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
Image
Since 1789 history has had a new perspective, revolution being a successful revolt, and revolt a revolution that has failed.
Andre Malraux
Image
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
Andre Malraux
Image
One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.
Andre Malraux
Image
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
Image
The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.
Andre Malraux
Image
You can only make art that talks to the masses when you have nothing to say to them.
Andre Malraux
Image
The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
Andre Malraux
Image
The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
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
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
Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
Andre Malraux
Image
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