Quote

Some pictures are in the gallery because they belong to humanity and others because they belong to the United States.

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
Others
States
Gallery
Belong
Pictures
Humanity
United

More quotes by Andre Malraux

Image
The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but all-essential field, that the artist has to battle.
Andre Malraux
Image
An individualism which has got beyond the stage of hedonism tends to yield to the lure of the grandiose. It was not man, the individual, nor even the Supreme Being, that Robespierre set up against Christ it was that Leviathan, the Nation.
Andre Malraux
Image
In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.
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
Athirst for personal salvation, the West forgets that many religions had but a vague notion of the life beyond the grave true, all great religions stake a claim on eternity, but not necessarily on man's eternal life.
Andre Malraux
Image
The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
Andre Malraux
Image
Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.
Andre Malraux
Image
Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.
Andre Malraux
Image
Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
Andre Malraux
Image
The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.
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
The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.
Andre Malraux
Image
The thrill of creation which we experience which we experience when we see a masterpiece is not unlike the feeling of the artist who created it such a work is a fragment of the world which he has annexed and which belongs to him alone.
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
There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
Andre Malraux
Image
I don't argue with my enemies I explain to their children.
Andre Malraux
Image
Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism.
Andre Malraux
Image
War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.
Andre Malraux
Image
As for the outside world, the artist is confronted by what he sees but what he sees is primarily what he looks at.
Andre Malraux
Image
All art is a revolt against man's fate.
Andre Malraux