Andre Malraux World Quotations

Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.

Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it.

The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival.

Every great masterpiece is a purification of the world.

As for the outside world, the artist is confronted by what he sees; but what he sees is primarily what he looks at.

The world of art is not a world of immortality but of metamorphosis.

In a world in which everything is subject to the passing of time, art alone is both subject to time and yet victorious over it.

The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.