You can only make art that talks to the masses when you have nothing to say to them. — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate. — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world. — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it. — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis. — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time. — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice. — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
Here, reality is not subordinated to painting, indeed painting seems the handmaid of reality, though we feel it tending towards a procedure… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to which you… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
In so far as he is a creator, the artist does not belong to a social group already moulded by a culture,… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
History may clarify our understanding of the supreme work of art, but can never account for it completely; for the Time of… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
In ceasing to subordinate creative power to any supreme value, modern art has brought home to us the presence of that creative… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
Every young man's heart is a graveyard in which are inscribed the names of a thousand dead artists but whose only actual… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
Could we bring ourselves to feel what the first spectators of an Egyptian statue, or a Romanesque crucifixion, felt, we would make… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
If modern painters feel qualms about applying the term "masterpiece" to describe a work of capital importance, this is because it has… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
The thrill of creation which we experience which we experience when we see a masterpiece is not unlike the feeling of the… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
As for the outside world, the artist is confronted by what he sees; but what he sees is primarily what he looks… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
The mind supplies the idea of a nation, but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams. — Andre Malraux Copy Share
You can only make art that talks to the masses when you have nothing to say to them. — Andre Malraux Copy Share
The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the… — Andre Malraux Copy Share
“The day may come when, contemplating a world given back to the primeval forst, a human survivor will have no means of even guessing… — André Malraux Copy Share
Some pictures are in the gallery because they belong to humanity and others because they belong to the United States. — Andre Malraux Copy Share
The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man. — Andre Malraux Copy Share
Even the West has known the architecture of empty space, whose object, for thousands of years, has been less to construct divine houses, than… — Andre Malraux Copy Share
The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created… — Andre Malraux Copy Share
“I seek the crucial region of the soul where absolute Evil and fraternity clash.” — Andre Malraux Copy Share
Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were. — Andre Malraux Copy Share
