Andre Malraux Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.”

“Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.”

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

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

“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.”