To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
No one can endure his own solitude.
What is man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
— André Malraux
Philosophy
Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time.
— André Malraux
Famous Quotes
The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
— André Malraux
Creativity
On this earth of ours where everything is subject to the passing of time, one thing only is both subject to time and yet victorious over it: the work of art.
If a man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?
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.
— André Malraux
Philosophy
The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves… is what I call hell.