Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were. — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
In the course of history, all empires have been created with premeditation, by an effort often sustained over several generations. Every power… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis. — 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
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
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
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
Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it. — 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 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
