It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
To think is first of all to create a world (or to limit one's own world, which comes to the same thing). — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Every artist thus keeps within himself a single source which nourishes during his lifetime what he is and what he says.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“But perhaps the the great work of art has less importance in itself than in the ordeal it demands of a man… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
To me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of men by providing them… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“To work and create 'for nothing', to sculpture in clay, to know that one's creation has no future, to see one's work… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“I'm the only true artist Rome has known - the only one, believe me - to match his inspiration with his deeds.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Yesterday it was love. Today the great passions of unity and liberty disrupt the world. yesterday love led to individual death. Today… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Just as there is a moment when the artist must stop, when the sculpture must be left as it is, the painting… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
You make the mistake of thinking you have to choose, that you have to do what you want, that there are conditions… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Everyone tries to make his life a work of art. We want love to last and we know that it does not… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Any thought that abandons unity glorifies diversity. And diversity is the home of art. The only thought to liberate the mind is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Contrary to the current presumption, if there is any man who has no right to solitude, it is the artist. Art cannot… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There is a metaphysical honour in ending the world's absurdity. Conquest or play-acting, multiple loves, absurd revolt are tributes that man pays… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Why I'm an artist, not a philosopher? Because I think in words rather than ideas.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Works of art are not born in flashes of inspiration but in daily fidelity.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The whole town rushed outside to celebrate this crowded minute when the time of suffering had ended and the time of forgetting had not… — Albert Camus Copy Share
Being is good, but getting rich is better… If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as poor as… — Albert Camus Copy Share
The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he… — Albert Camus Copy Share
“Having been, not only mutilated in our country, wounded in our very flesh, but also divested of our most beautiful images, for you gave… — Albert Camus Copy Share
I've seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned it… — Albert Camus Copy Share
The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As for those who succumb, they did not deserve to survive. — Albert Camus Copy Share
“Then he asked me if I wasn’t interested in a change of life. I said that people never change their lives, that in any… — Albert Camus Copy Share
Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless. — Albert Camus Copy Share
Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't… — Albert Camus Copy Share
I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings. — Albert Camus Copy Share
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. — Albert Camus Copy Share
“We love people not because for good they did for us, but for good we did for them.” — Albert Camus Copy Share
You have so much inside you, and the noblest happiness of all. Don’t just wait for a man to come along. That’s the mistake… — Albert Camus Copy Share
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the… — Albert Camus Copy Share
