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.

— André Malraux

André Malraux Quotes

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.

— André Malraux

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

— André Malraux

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.

— André Malraux

The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.

— André Malraux

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.

— André Malraux

Youth is a religion from which one always ends up being converted.

— André Malraux

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

— André Malraux

Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken.

— André Malraux

Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.

— André Malraux

To understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it’s better not to be a fish.

— André Malraux

Since 1789 history has had a new perspective, revolution being a successful revolt, and revolt a revolution that has failed.

— André Malraux

If you can’t make art, make your life a work of art.

— André Malraux

Every creation is, at its root, the struggle between potential form and imitated form.

— André Malraux

Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.

— André Malraux

There’s no such thing as a grown up person.

— André Malraux

War puts its questions stupidly, peace mysteriously.

— André Malraux

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.

— André Malraux

No one can endure his own solitude.

— André Malraux

Chanel, General De Gaulle and Picasso are the three most important figures of our time.

— André Malraux

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

— André Malraux
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