One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say. Andre Malraux More Quotes by Andre Malraux More Quotes From Andre Malraux The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis. Andre Malraux metamorphosis world art And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own. Andre Malraux destiny faces men The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten. Andre Malraux things-in-life important life-is The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival. Andre Malraux rivals artist world An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please. Andre Malraux freedom genius art The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man. Andre Malraux machines men civilization 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 own nothingness. Andre Malraux powerful stars self If you can't make art, make your life a work of art. Andre Malraux works-of-art ifs art 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. Andre Malraux fighting winning war All art is a revolt against man's fate. Andre Malraux fate destiny art An art book is a museum without walls. Andre Malraux wall book art The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world. Andre Malraux strive world art 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. Andre Malraux superstitions civilization order One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be. Andre Malraux fool life long Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all. Andre Malraux anarchist superstitions belief Even the West has known the architecture of empty space, whose object, for thousands of years, has been less to construct divine houses, than to create sacred places, to seize upon mystery and to immerse man in it-whether by raising the cyclopean pedestal that surrounds him with stars, or by hollowing out the sanctuary that wraps him in haunted night. Andre Malraux stars men night Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were. Andre Malraux wish men world Our characteristic response to the mutilated statue, the bronze dug up from the earth, is revealing. It is not that we prefer time-worn bas-reliefs, or rusted statuettes as such, nor is it the vestiges of death that grip us in them, but those of life. Mutilation is the scar left by the struggle with Time, and a reminder of it - Time which is as much a part of ancient works of art as the material they are made of, and thrusts up through the fissures, from a dark underworld, where all is at once chaos and determinism. Andre Malraux struggle dark art Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything. Andre Malraux philosophy history art The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides. Andre Malraux men firsts