• 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.

    Andre Malraux: 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.
    "Voices of Silence". Book by Andre Malraux, Part III, Chapter III, 1951.