Could we bring ourselves to feel what the first spectators of an Egyptian statue, or a Romanesque crucifixion, felt, we would make haste to remove them from the Louvre. True, we are trying more and more to gauge the feelings… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
Our characteristic response to the mutilated statue, the bronze dug up from the earth, is revealing. It is not that we prefer time-worn bas-reliefs, or rusted statuettes as such, nor is it the vestiges of death that grip us in… — 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
