History may clarify our understanding of the supreme work of art, but can never account for it completely; for the Time of art is not the same as the Time of history. — 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
