André Malraux Quotes

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

André Malraux
If a man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?

André Malraux
Remote from ourselves in dream and in time, India belongs to the Ancient Orient of our soul... What is Zeus, compared with Shiva? The only god of antiquity whose language is worthy of India is the god without temples – Fate.

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A large share of our art heritage is now derived from peoples whose idea of art was quite other than ours, and even from peoples to whom the very idea of art meant nothing.

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

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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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The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but all-essential field, that the artist has to battle.

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History may clarify our understanding of the supreme work of art, but can never account for it completely; for the Time of art is not the same as the Time of history.

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Humanism does not consist in saying: 'No animal could have done what I have done,' but in declaring: 'We have refused what the beast within us willed to do, and we seek to reclaim man wherever we find that which crushes him.'

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The art museum is one of the places that give us the highest idea of man.

André Malraux