Even the West has known the architecture of empty space, whose object, for thousands of years, has been less to construct divine houses, than to create sacred places, to seize upon mystery and to immerse man in it-whether by raising the cyclopean pedestal that surrounds him with stars, or by hollowing out the sanctuary that wraps him in haunted night.
Here, reality is not subordinated to painting, indeed painting seems the handmaid of reality, though we feel it tending towards a procedure which, wh… - Andre Malraux
Here, reality is not subordinated to painting, indeed painting seems the handmaid of reality, though we feel it tending towards a procedure which, wh…
- Andre Malraux
In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth. . . . Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose. - Andre Malraux
In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth. . . . Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose.
In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers. - Andre Malraux
In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.
The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be. - Andre Malraux
The twenty-first century will be spiritual or it will not be.
Since 1789 history has had a new perspective, revolution being a successful revolt, and revolt a revolution that has failed. - Andre Malraux
Since 1789 history has had a new perspective, revolution being a successful revolt, and revolt a revolution that has failed.
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 s… - 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 s…
If you can't make art, make your life a work of art. - Andre Malraux
If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.
Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken. - Andre Malraux
Seldom is a Gothic head more beautiful than when broken.
If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft. - Andre Malraux
If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.
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