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

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Andre Malraux was a French novelist, historian, and philosopher. Known for his unique narrative style and profound insights into history, his works have won widespread acclaim. Born on November 3, 1901, he passed away on November 23, 1976. more

“Could we bring ourselves to feel what the first spectators of an Egyptian statue, or a Romanesque crucifixion, felt, we would make haste to remove them from the Louvre. True, we are trying more and more to gauge the feelings of those first spectators, but without forgetting our own, and we can be contented all the more easily with the mere knowledge of the former, without experiencing them, because all we wish to do is put this knowledge to the work of art.”

Feels Trying Firsts Art Feelings Wish Felt Forget Mere Former Remove Works Of Art Statues Spectators Haste Crucifixion Egyptian Gauges Louvre

Author:Andre Malraux

“A large share of our art heritage is now derived from peoples whose idea of art was quite other than ours, and even from peoples to whom the very idea of art meant nothing.”

Art Ideas Share Heritage

Author:Andre Malraux

“Though man's feeling for the other-worldly often has recourse to solitude, solitude does not foster its development; rather, it is nourished by communion, to which the church is more propitious than the cemetery.”

Men Doe Feelings Church Development Solitude Communion Worldly Cemetery Recourse

Author:Andre Malraux

“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.”

Men Artist Struggle Fields Battle Essentials Ordinary Ordinary Man

Author:Andre Malraux

“The present age delights in unearthing a great man's secrets; for one thing because we like to temper our admiration and also perhaps we have a vague hope of finding a clue to genius in such "revelations."”

Men Age Secret One Thing Genius Findings Delight Revelations Great Men Admiration Temper Vague Clue

Author:Andre Malraux

“I've become convinced that nostalgia is a fundamentally unhealthy modality. When you see it, it's usually attached to something else that's really, seriously bad. I don't traffic in nostalgia. We're becoming a global culture.”

Culture Becoming Convinced Nostalgia Traffic Unhealthy

Author:William Gibson

“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.”

Ifs Feels Made Artist Term Modern Ideals Perfection Importance Notion Confusion Painter Masterpiece Qualms Qualms About

Author:Andre Malraux

“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.”

Men Forget Eternal Eternity Claims Salvation West Notion Graves Stakes Vague Eternal Life

Author:Andre Malraux

“Surely that little pseudo-gothic church on Broadway, hidden amongst the skyscrapers, is symbolic of the age! On the whole face of the globe the civilization that has conquered it has failed to build a temple or a tomb.”

Littles Whole Age Faces Church Civilization Temples Globes Broadway Gothic Symbolic Tombs Pseudo Skyscraper

Author:Andre Malraux

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