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 rivals world
The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
world purification masterpiece
Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.
world doe genius
Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
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.
art world metamorphosis
The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.
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.
men wish world
Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.
art world strive
The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.
beyond cause man restored richness sacrifice total
The total sacrifice to a cause beyond his comprehension restored a richness to man
boys landed leaving painting risks taken talk took
There has been talk of the risks this painting took by leaving the Louvre. But the risks taken by the boys who landed one day in Normandy-to say nothing of those who had preceded them 25 years before-were much more certain.
love remember seem time truth
Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.
among french-author historic homage humblest listening paying
To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to which you are paying historic homage this evening is a painting which he has saved.
art revolt
Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.
art communication mass
You can only make art that talks to the masses when you have nothing to say to them.