Explore Quotes by Andre Malraux

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.

An art book is a museum without walls.

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

There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.

All art is a revolt against man's fate.

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

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.

The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.

The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.

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

Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.

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

In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it.

What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

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

The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our own nothingness.