Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
Art Critic
Art Historian
Author
Film Director
Film Editor
Journalist
Novelist
Politician
Screenwriter
Writer
Paris
France
Georges-André Malraux
Andre Malraux
Georges-Andre Malraux
Men
Basic
Machines
Except
Civilization
Teach
Problem
Everything

More quotes by Andre Malraux

Image
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.
Andre Malraux
Image
The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.
Andre Malraux
Image
Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional responses to a problem that remains intact.
Andre Malraux
Image
Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.
Andre Malraux
Image
In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth. . . . Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose.
Andre Malraux
Image
The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.
Andre Malraux
Image
Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
Andre Malraux
Image
Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.
Andre Malraux
Image
The mind supplies the idea of a nation, but what gives this idea its sentimental force is a community of dreams.
Andre Malraux
Image
Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale and he wishes that it were.
Andre Malraux
Image
Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.
Andre Malraux
Image
And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
Andre Malraux
Image
In ceasing to subordinate creative power to any supreme value, modern art has brought home to us the presence of that creative power throughout the whole history of art.
Andre Malraux
Image
The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.
Andre Malraux
Image
Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.
Andre Malraux
Image
I don't argue with my enemies I explain to their children.
Andre Malraux
Image
One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say.
Andre Malraux
Image
A break in the established order is never the work of chance. It is the outcome of a man's resolve to turn life to account.
Andre Malraux
Image
Some pictures are in the gallery because they belong to humanity and others because they belong to the United States.
Andre Malraux
Image
He who has dreamed for long resembles his dream.
Andre Malraux