Famous quotes by Andre Malraux:

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

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

"An art book is a museum without walls."

"What is man? A miserable little pile of secrets"

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

"The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten"

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

"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"

"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 nothingness"

"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."

"War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously."

"Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides."

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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