Wednesday, November 3, 2010

Meander with me . . .

Today is the birthday of André Georges Malraux (November 3, 1901November 23, 1976), adventurer, novelist, art historian and statesman.

"All art is a revolt against man's fate."
- Andre Malraux

“Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.”
- Andre Malraux

"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

“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”
- Andre Malraux

"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


"The mind supplies the idea of a nation, but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams."
- Andre Malraux

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

"An art book is a museum without walls."
- Andre Malraux

Malraux image source (1)
Malraux stamp image source (1)

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