Andre Malraux Quotes

The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.

War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.

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.

As for the outside world, the artist is confronted by what he sees; but what he sees is primarily what he looks at.

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.

To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.

The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.

Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have enabled man to be less enslaved

Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.

Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.

Since 1789 history has had a new perspective, revolution being a successful revolt, and revolt a revolution that has failed.