André Malraux Short Quotes

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The sons of torture-victims make good terrorists.

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

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The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.

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

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

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

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

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

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Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.

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Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time.

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The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it.

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In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.

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The genius of Christianity is to have proclaimed that the path to the deepest mystery is the path of love.

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The extermination camps, in endeavoring to turn man into a beast, intimated that it is not life alone which makes him man.

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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.

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On this earth of ours where everything is subject to the passing of time, one thing only is both subject to time and yet victorious over it: the work of art.

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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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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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In ceasing to subordinate creative power to any supreme value, modern art has brought home to us the presence of that creative power throughout the whole history of art.

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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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Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional responses to a problem that remains intact.

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The human mind invents its Puss-in-Boots and its coaches that change into pumpkins at midnight because neither the believer nor the atheist is completely satisfied with appearances.

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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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Our civilization … is not devaluing its awareness of the unknowable; nor is it deifying it. It is the first civilization that has severed it from religion and superstition. In order to question it.

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