Andre Malraux
Andre Malraux
André Malraux DSOwas a French novelist, art theorist and Minister of Cultural Affairs. Malraux's novel La Condition Humainewon the Prix Goncourt. He was appointed by President Charles de Gaulle as Minister of Informationand subsequently as France's first Minister of Cultural Affairs during de Gaulle's presidency...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth3 November 1901
CountryFrance
artist qualms-about confusion
If modern painters feel qualms about applying the term "masterpiece" to describe a work of capital importance, this is because it has come to convey a notion of perfection: a notion that leads to much confusion when applied to artists other than those who made perfection their ideal.
artist rivals world
The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
freedom artist genius
An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.
struggle men artist
The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but all-essential field, that the artist has to battle.
artist world looks
As for the outside world, the artist is confronted by what he sees; but what he sees is primarily what he looks at.
artist feelings thrill
The thrill of creation which we experience which we experience when we see a masterpiece is not unlike the feeling of the artist who created it; such a work is a fragment of the world which he has annexed and which belongs to him alone.
heart men artist
Every young man's heart is a graveyard in which are inscribed the names of a thousand dead artists but whose only actual denizens are a few mighty, often antagonistic, ghosts.
artist discovery order
The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.
artist building-up doe
In so far as he is a creator, the artist does not belong to a social group already moulded by a culture, but to a culture which he is by way of building up.
religion youth ends
Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.
solitude endure
No one can endure his own solitude.
order civilization superstitions
Our civilization ... is not devaluing its awareness of the unknowable; nor is it deifying it. It is the first civilization that has severed it from religion and superstition. In order to question it.
important three figures
Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time.
love-picture sunset landscape
Just as a musician loves music and not nightingales, and a poet loves poetry and not sunsets, a painter is not primarily a person who responds to figures and landscapes. He is primarily one who loves pictures.