Quote

The only domain where the divine is visible is that of art, whatever name we choose to call it.

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
Visible
Choose
Divine
Name
Names
Call
Whatever
Art
Domain

More quotes by Andre Malraux

Image
If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?
Andre Malraux
Image
Nothing is harder than to get people to think about what they are going to do.
Andre Malraux
Image
The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
Andre Malraux
Image
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.
Andre Malraux
Image
The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.
Andre Malraux
Image
Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.
Andre Malraux
Image
And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
Andre Malraux
Image
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.
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
Since 1789 history has had a new perspective, revolution being a successful revolt, and revolt a revolution that has failed.
Andre Malraux
Image
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.
Andre Malraux
Image
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.
Andre Malraux
Image
To understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it's better not to be a fish.
Andre Malraux
Image
The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.
Andre Malraux
Image
History may clarify our understanding of the supreme work of art, but can never account for it completely for the Time of art is not the same as the Time of history.
Andre Malraux
Image
I don't argue with my enemies I explain to their children.
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
To command is to serve, nothing more and nothing less.
Andre Malraux
Image
There are not fifty ways of fighting, there is only one: to be the conqueror.
Andre Malraux
Image
Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
Andre Malraux