Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it. Andre Malraux More Quotes by Andre Malraux More Quotes From Andre Malraux To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less. Andre Malraux vision military leadership 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 Andre Malraux men culture art The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be. Andre Malraux twenties spiritual firsts Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides. Andre Malraux secret men thinking There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman. Andre Malraux islam west needs What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets. Andre Malraux keeping-secrets littles men A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question. Andre Malraux political leader believe 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. Andre Malraux success motivational inspirational I don't argue with my enemies; I explain to their children. Andre Malraux arguing children enemy 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. Andre Malraux leader inspirational firsts Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do. Andre Malraux harder people thinking There's no such thing as a grown up person. Andre Malraux nature persons The great Christian art did not die because all possible forms had been used up; it died because faith was being transformed into piety. Now, the same conquest of the outside world that brought in our modern individualism, so different from that of the Renaissance, is by way of relativizing the individual. It is plain to see that man's faculty of transformation, which began by a remaking of the natural world, has ended by calling man himself into question. Andre Malraux christian men art In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers. Andre Malraux destiny important men The mind supplies the idea of a nation, but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams. Andre Malraux dream giving ideas In so far as he is a creator, the artist does not belong to a social group already moulded by a culture, but to a culture which he is by way of building up. Andre Malraux building-up groups artist He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream. Andre Malraux dream long To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice. Andre Malraux painting voice feels To understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it's better not to be a fish. Andre Malraux fishes aquariums looks The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny. Andre Malraux life-and-death destiny terrible
