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Quotes by Andre Malraux - (11 quotes)

Andre Malraux - From the Art category:

All art is a revolt against man's fate. (Andre Malraux)

Andre Malraux - From the Books category:

An art book is a museum without walls. (Andre Malraux)

Andre Malraux - From the Collectors category:

To love a painting is to feel that this presence is... not an object but a voice. (Andre Malraux)

Andre Malraux - From the Communication category:

You can only make art that talks to the masses when you have nothing to say to them. (Andre Malraux)

Andre Malraux - From the Criticism category:

-on Jan Vermeer...
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)

Andre Malraux - From the Culture category:

In so far as he is a creator, the artist does not belong to a social group already moulded by a culture, but to a culture which he is by way of building up. (Andre Malraux)

Andre Malraux - From the Genius category:

An artist discovers his genius the day he dares not to please. (Andre Malraux)

Andre Malraux - From the Music category:

Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only. (Andre Malraux)

Andre Malraux - From the Mysteries category:

The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our nothingness. (Andre Malraux)

Andre Malraux - From the Painting category:

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)

Andre Malraux - From the Silence category:

One cannot create an art that speaks to men when one has nothing to say. (Andre Malraux)