Andre Malraux

I don't argue with my enemies; I explain to their children.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

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.

One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.

Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.

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

He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.

In the course of history, all empires have been created with premeditation, by an effort often sustained over several generations. Every power has been Roman to a degree. The United States is the first nation to become the most powerful in the world without having sought to be so. Its exceptional energy and organization have never been oriented toward conquest.

A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.

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.

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

The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.

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.

One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be.

Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.

And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.

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