“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 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
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
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
And often he who has chosen the fate of the artist because he felt himself to be different soon realizes that he… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In a world that has ceased to believe in sin, the artist is responsible for the preaching. — 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
Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world. — 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
“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
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
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
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
“Why I'm an artist, not a philosopher? Because I think in words rather than ideas.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are. — 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
“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
“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
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
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
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
At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
