André Malraux Quote

If modern painters feel qualms about applying the term "masterpiece" to describe a work of capital importance, this is because it has come to convey a notion of perfection: a notion that leads to much confusion when applied to artists other than those who made perfection their ideal.

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

If modern painters feel qualms about applying the term masterpiece to describe a work of capital importance, this is because it has come to convey a...

If modern painters feel qualms about applying the term masterpiece to describe a work of capital importance, this is because it has come to convey a...

If modern painters feel qualms about applying the term masterpiece to describe a work of capital importance, this is because it has come to convey a...

If modern painters feel qualms about applying the term masterpiece to describe a work of capital importance, this is because it has come to convey a...