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 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.
art world strive
The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.
civilization age church
Surely that little pseudo-gothic church on Broadway, hidden amongst the skyscrapers, is symbolic of the age! On the whole face of the globe the civilization that has conquered it has failed to build a temple or a tomb.
artist building-up doe
In so far as he is a creator, the artist does not belong to a social group already moulded by a culture, but to a culture which he is by way of building up.
men keeping-secrets littles
What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
men thinking secret
Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
destiny life-and-death terrible
The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.
war fighting winning
There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases.
things-in-life important life-is
The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
spiritual firsts twenties
The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.
islam west needs
There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.