Quotes by André Malraux

André Malraux

André Malraux

French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger)

Lived from: 1901 - 1976

Category: Politics | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagFrance

Born: 3 november 1901 Died: 23 november 1976

  • Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.

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  • Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.
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  • Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
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  • An art book is a museum without walls.
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  • And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
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  • Be careful - with quotations, you can damn anything.
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  • Between eighteen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
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  • Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
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  • Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
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  • Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
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  • Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.
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  • Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
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  • The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
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  • The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.
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  • 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.
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  • Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.
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  • There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.
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  • There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
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  • To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
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  • To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to which you are paying historic homage this evening is a painting which he has saved.
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  • War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
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What are the most famous quotes from André Malraux?

The two most famous quotes from André Malraux are:

  • "Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate."
  • "Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only."

When did André Malraux live?

André Malraux was born in 1901 and died in the year 1976.