The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“A person's life purpose is nothing more than to rediscover, through the detours of art or love or passionate work, those one… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I have the loftiest idea, and the most passionate one, of art. Much too lofty to agree to subject it to anything.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely.… — 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
“Many artists, even the greatest ones, are not sure of their own existence. So they search for proof, they judge, they condemn.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Modern conquerors can kill, but do not seem to be able to create. Artists know how to create but cannot really kill.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The first choice an artist makes is precisely to be an artist, and if he chooses to be an artist it is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal. — 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
