Frases de André Malraux

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“El tiempo cura lo que la razón en vano procura.”

“La muerte sólo tiene importancia en la medida en que nos hace reflexionar sobre el valor de la vida.”

“El siglo XXI será espiritual o no será.”

“Lo difícil no es estar con los amigos cuando tiene razón, sino cuando se equivocan.”

“Si de veras llegásemos a poder comprender, ya no podríamos juzgar.”

“La verdad de un hombre reside, sobre todo, en lo que calla.”

“No tarda nueve meses sino sesenta años en formarse un hombre.”

“La realidad no tiene estilo ni talento.”

“El verdadero combate empieza cuando uno debe luchar contra una parte de sí mismo. Pero uno sólo se convierte en un hombre cuando supera estos combates.”

“La cultura es lo que, en la muerte, continúa siendo la vida.”

“La juventud es una religión a la que uno siempre acaba convirtiéndose.”

“La tradición no se hereda, se conquista.”

“The sons of torture victims make good terrorists.”

“The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but all-essential field, that the artist has to battle.”

“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.”

“Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional responses to a problem that remains intact.”

“The human mind invents its Puss-in-Boots and its coaches that change into pumpkins at midnight because neither the believer nor the atheist is completely satisfied with appearances.”

“In ceasing to subordinate creative power to any supreme value, modern art has brought home to us the presence of that creative power throughout the whole history of art.”