In ceasing to subordinate creative power to any supreme value, modern art has brought home to us the presence of that creative power throughout the whole history of art. — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
Surely that little pseudo-gothic church on Broadway, hidden amongst the skyscrapers, is symbolic of the age! On the whole face of the globe the civilization that has conquered it has failed to build a temple or a tomb. — 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
