Explore Quotes by Andre Malraux

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.

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.

Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.

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

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

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

To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.

The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.

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.

Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.

The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.

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.

Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.

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.