Art Quotes by Albert Camus

Art and revolt will die only with the last man.

— Albert Camus

Without freedom there is no art.

— Albert Camus

...Any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

— Albert Camus

If the world were clear, art would not exist.

— Albert Camus

We have art in order not to die of life.

— Albert Camus

A work of art is a confession.

— Albert Camus

Art does not tolerate reason.

— Albert Camus

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

— Albert Camus

It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.

— Albert Camus

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

— Albert Camus

If we understood the enigmas of life there would be no need for art.

— Albert Camus

Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future.

— Albert Camus

It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle.

— Albert Camus

If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.

— Albert Camus

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

To me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of men by providing them…

— Albert Camus

“But perhaps the the great work of art has less importance in itself than in the ordeal it demands of a man…

— Albert Camus

There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and…

— Albert Camus

“Every artist thus keeps within himself a single source which nourishes during his lifetime what he is and what he says.”

— Albert Camus

After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the…

— Albert Camus

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

The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the…

— Albert Camus

On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and…

— Albert Camus

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

“Yesterday it was love. Today the great passions of unity and liberty disrupt the world. yesterday love led to individual death. Today…

— Albert Camus

“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

“I'm the only true artist Rome has known - the only one, believe me - to match his inspiration with his deeds.…

— Albert Camus

Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which…

— Albert Camus

The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be…

— Albert Camus

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself…

— Albert Camus

“A symbol is always in general and, however precise its translation, an artist can restore to it only its movement: there is…

— Albert Camus

“Any thought that abandons unity glorifies diversity. And diversity is the home of art. The only thought to liberate the mind is…

— Albert Camus

“Everyone tries to make his life a work of art. We want love to last and we know that it does not…

— Albert Camus

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

“Contrary to the current presumption, if there is any man who has no right to solitude, it is the artist. Art cannot…

— Albert Camus

In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.

— Albert Camus

The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.

— Albert Camus

In a world that has ceased to believe in sin, the artist is responsible for the preaching.

— Albert Camus

Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world.

— Albert Camus

Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are.

— Albert Camus