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
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.
art wall book
An art book is a museum without walls.
men destiny faces
And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
voice painting feels
To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.
art fate destiny
All art is a revolt against man's fate.