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
artist world looks
As for the outside world, the artist is confronted by what he sees; but what he sees is primarily what he looks at.
life business men
Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
stars powerful self
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.
believe leader political
A political leader is necessarily an imposter since he believes in solving life's problems without asking its question.
thinking people harder
Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.
art world metamorphosis
The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.
life long fool
One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be.
religious next tasks
The next century's task will be to rediscover its gods.
children enemy arguing
I don't argue with my enemies; I explain to their children.
democracy communism
Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
art world passing
In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it.
artist feelings thrill
The thrill of creation which we experience which we experience when we see a masterpiece is not unlike the feeling of the artist who created it; such a work is a fragment of the world which he has annexed and which belongs to him alone.
fighting fifty way
There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.
men firsts
The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.