Андре Мальро цитаты

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„Часто разница между успешным человеком и неудачником состоит не в способностях или уникальной идее, но в мужестве сделать ставку на свои идеи, взять на себя просчитанный риск и действовать.“

„В политике, как и в грамматике, ошибка, которую совершают все, провозглашается правилом.“

“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.”