Andre Malraux Quotes & Sayings

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

“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.”

“Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.”

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

“Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.”

“Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.”

“An art book is a museum without walls.”

“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.”

“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.”