Art Quote by Andre Malraux

The mind supplies the idea of a nation, but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.

— Andre Malraux

If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.

— Andre Malraux

You can only make art that talks to the masses when you have nothing to say to them.

— Andre Malraux

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

“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

Some pictures are in the gallery because they belong to humanity and others because they belong to the United States.

— Andre Malraux

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

The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.

— Andre Malraux

Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.

— Andre Malraux

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

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

Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.

— Andre Malraux