André Malraux: Making

André Malraux was French novelist, art theorist and politician. Explore interesting quotes on making.
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“Each form of the sacrosanct was regarded by members of the culture which gave rise to it as a revelation of the Truth; at Byzantium it was not a mere hypothesis that was sponsored by the majesty of the Byzantine style. To us, however, these forms make their appeal as forms alone — in other words, as they would be were they the work of a contemporary (and, since this actually is unthinkable, they affect us in a puzzling manner); or else as so many grandiose vestiges of a faith that has died out. We look at them from outside; they are still emotive, but they are no longer true. Thus we deprive them of what was their most vital element; for a religious civilization that regarded what it revered as a mere hypothesis is inconceivable.”

André Malraux

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

“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.”

André Malraux

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

“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/

“The sons of torture victims make good terrorists.”

André Malraux

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

“Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional responses to a problem that remains intact.”

André Malraux

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