André Malraux, TV program: Promenades imaginaires dans Florence, 1975.
André Malraux: Quotes about art
André Malraux was French novelist, art theorist and politician. Explore interesting quotes on art.
Part IV, Chapter VII
Les voix du silence [Voices of Silence] (1951)
Context: Our characteristic response to the mutilated statue, the bronze dug up from the earth, is revealing. It is not that we prefer time-worn bas-reliefs, or rusted statuettes as such, nor is it the vestiges of death that grip us in them, but those of life. Mutilation is the scar left by the struggle with Time, and a reminder of it — Time which is as much a part of ancient works of art as the material they are made of, and thrusts up through the fissures, from a dark underworld, where all is at once chaos and determinism.
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.
“Art is a revolt against fate.”
Part IV, Chapter VII
Les voix du silence [Voices of Silence] (1951)
“One cannot create an art that speaks to me when one has nothing to say.”
L'espoir [Man's Hope] (1938)
Part I, Chapter V
Les voix du silence [Voices of Silence] (1951)
Part I, Chapter III
Les voix du silence [Voices of Silence] (1951)
André Malraux, Préface du Temps du mépris (1935), Malraux citations sur www. fondationandremalraux. org http://fondationandremalraux.org/index.php/citations/
Part IV, Chapter VI
Les voix du silence [Voices of Silence] (1951)
Part IV, Chapter VII
Les voix du silence [Voices of Silence] (1951)
Part IV, Chapter VI
Les voix du silence [Voices of Silence] (1951)