The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
Even the West has known the architecture of empty space, whose object, for thousands of years, has been less to construct divine… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
The present age delights in unearthing a great man's secrets; for one thing because we like to temper our admiration and also… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say. — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers. — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
The great Christian art did not die because all possible forms had been used up; it died because faith was being transformed… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
A break in the established order is never the work of chance. It is the outcome of a man's resolve to turn… — 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
Though man's feeling for the other-worldly often has recourse to solitude, solitude does not foster its development; rather, it is nourished by… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
Athirst for personal salvation, the West forgets that many religions had but a vague notion of the life beyond the grave; true,… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
An individualism which has got beyond the stage of hedonism tends to yield to the lure of the grandiose. It was not… — 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
Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have… — 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 Image
If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft. — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
You can only make art that talks to the masses when you have nothing to say to them. — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Some pictures are in the gallery because they belong to humanity and others because they belong to the United States. — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate. — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
