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 heirs firsts
In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth. . . . Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose.
superstitions belief anarchist
Christ...an anarchist who succeeded. That's all.
aquariums looks fishes
To understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it's better not to be a fish.
world purification masterpiece
Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.
successful perspective revolution
Since 1789 history has had a new perspective, revolution being a successful revolt, and revolt a revolution that has failed.
art works-of-art ifs
If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.
lying men firsts
The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.
struggle roots creation
Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.
humanity united-states gallery
Some pictures are in the gallery because they belong to humanity and others because they belong to the United States.
men risk dignity
If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?
art understanding may
History may clarify our understanding of the supreme work of art, but can never account for it completely; for the Time of art is not the same as the Time of history.
art home creative
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.
christian art men
The great Christian art did not die because all possible forms had been used up; it died because faith was being transformed into piety. Now, the same conquest of the outside world that brought in our modern individualism, so different from that of the Renaissance, is by way of relativizing the individual. It is plain to see that man's faculty of transformation, which began by a remaking of the natural world, has ended by calling man himself into question.
art past culture
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.