COLLECTOR'S CHOICE 2004

"...Thus today art means to us that underlying continuity due to a latent kinship between the works of art of all ages which is an historical continuity, since never does an art destroy all that it has inherited [...]. But art also involves a constant metamorphosis of forms due both to the nature of the creative act and to the ineluctable march of Time. For Time includes all the forms of the past in the evolutionary change it imposes on the whole world of human experience; indeed our awareness of this process coincides with our awareness of duration itself. With us this awareness is no longer like the feeling of the traveler who himself remains unchanged in the changing scenes of Space and Time; it is more like the feeling symbolized by the seed which grows into the tree..."

André Malraux

André Malraux, The Voices of Silence, (Original edition published 1953, based on The Psychology of Art by André Malraux [Bollingen Series XXIV, 3 vols., 1949/50]), translated by Stuart Gilbert, Reprint Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1978, p. 627