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 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.
beautiful broken gothic
Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken.
damn be-careful careful
Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
art names divine
The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it.
stars night men
Even the West has known the architecture of empty space, whose object, for thousands of years, has been less to construct divine houses, than to create sacred places, to seize upon mystery and to immerse man in it-whether by raising the cyclopean pedestal that surrounds him with stars, or by hollowing out the sanctuary that wraps him in haunted night.
heart men artist
Every young man's heart is a graveyard in which are inscribed the names of a thousand dead artists but whose only actual denizens are a few mighty, often antagonistic, ghosts.
men wish world
Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.
success art men
One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.
war
War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
style age may
Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
artist discovery order
The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.