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
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boys landed leaving painting risks taken talk took
There has been talk of the risks this painting took by leaving the Louvre. But the risks taken by the boys who landed one day in Normandy-to say nothing of those who had preceded them 25 years before-were much more certain.
art revolt
Art is a revolt against fate. All art is a revolt against man's fate.
love remember seem time truth
Then I despair... I remember that all through history, the way of truth and love has always won. There have been murderers and tyrants, and for a time they can seem invincible. But in the end they always fall. Think of it always.
leadership inspirational-military military-command
To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
things-in-life important life-is
The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
destiny life-and-death terrible
The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.
voice painting feels
To love a painting is to feel that this presence is ... not an object but a voice.
style age may
Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
success art men
One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.
fighting fifty way
There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.
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.
dream long
He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.
destiny men important
In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.
humanity united-states gallery
Some pictures are in the gallery because they belong to humanity and others because they belong to the United States.