Andre Malraux
Andre Malraux
André Malraux DSOwas a French novelist, art theorist and Minister of Cultural Affairs. Malraux's novel La Condition Humainewon the Prix Goncourt. He was appointed by President Charles de Gaulle as Minister of Informationand subsequently as France's first Minister of Cultural Affairs during de Gaulle's presidency...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth3 November 1901
CountryFrance
art ideas heritage
A large share of our art heritage is now derived from peoples whose idea of art was quite other than ours, and even from peoples to whom the very idea of art meant nothing.
love-picture sunset landscape
Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily a person who responds to figures and landscapes. He is primarily one who loves pictures.
reality criticism painting
Here, reality is not subordinated to painting, indeed painting seems the handmaid of reality, though we feel it tending towards a procedure which, while not at the mercy of appearances, is not yet in conflict with them.
men order outcomes
A break in the established order is never the work of chance. It is the outcome of a man's resolve to turn life to account.
dream long
He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.
men civilization machines
The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
powerful organization effort
In the course of history, all empires have been created with premeditation, by an effort often sustained over several generations. Every power has been Roman to a degree. The United States is the first nation to become the most powerful in the world without having sought to be so. Its exceptional energy and organization have never been oriented toward conquest.
freedom artist genius
An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.
self-esteem hell force
The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
real suffering teach
Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
destiny shapes witchcraft
If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.
dream ideas giving
The mind supplies the idea of a nation, but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.
men solitude feelings
Though man's feeling for the other-worldly often has recourse to solitude, solitude does not foster its development; rather, it is nourished by communion, to which the church is more propitious than the cemetery.
struggle men artist
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.