André Malraux: Greatness

André Malraux was French novelist, art theorist and politician. Explore interesting quotes on greatness.
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“The great Christian art did not die because all possible forms had been used up; it died because faith was being transformed into piety.”

André Malraux

André Malraux, Les voix du silence [Voices of Silence] (1951) Part IV, Chapter VI
Les voix du silence [Voices of Silence] (1951)
Context: The great Christian art did not die because all possible forms had been used up; it died because faith was being transformed into piety. Now, the same conquest of the outside world that brought in our modern individualism, so different from that of the Renaissance, is by way of relativizing the individual. It is plain to see that man's faculty of transformation, which began by a remaking of the natural world, has ended by calling man himself into question.

Faith , Art

“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.”

André Malraux

Part IV, Chapter I
Les voix du silence [Voices of Silence] (1951)

Life , Religion , Personality , Forgetting

“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."”

André Malraux

Part III, Chapter VI
Les voix du silence [Voices of Silence] (1951)

Secret , Age , Hope

“One can like that the meaning of the word "art" is to try to make men aware of the greatness that they ignore in them.”

André Malraux

André Malraux, Préface du Temps du mépris (1935), Malraux citations sur www. fondationandremalraux. org http://fondationandremalraux.org/index.php/citations/

Men , Art

“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 own nothingness.”

André Malraux

La condition humaine [Man's Fate] (1933)

Star , Drawing