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 rivals world
The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
world purification masterpiece
Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.
world doe genius
Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.
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.
art world metamorphosis
The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.
art world passing
In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it.
men wish world
Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.
art world strive
The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.
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.
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.