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
dream long
He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.
life long fool
One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be.
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.
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.
artist rivals world
The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
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.
reality criticism painting
Here, reality is not subordinated to painting, indeed painting seems the handmaid of reality, though we feel it tending towards a procedure which, while not at the mercy of appearances, is not yet in conflict with them.
powerful organization effort
In the course of history, all empires have been created with premeditation, by an effort often sustained over several generations. Every power has been Roman to a degree. The United States is the first nation to become the most powerful in the world without having sought to be so. Its exceptional energy and organization have never been oriented toward conquest.
freedom artist genius
An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please.
self-esteem hell force
The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
real suffering teach
Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.