Albert Camus Quotes About Art

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

  Albert Camus

  Time, Art, Needs

  Albert Camus (2012). “Happy Death”, p.74, Vintage

• If the world were clear, art would not exist.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Design, World

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.98, Vintage

• A work of art is a confession.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Confession, Art Is

  Albert Camus (1963). “Notebooks”

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

  Albert Camus

  Art, Hipster, Needs

  Albert Camus (1969). “Notebooks”

• Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

  Albert Camus

  Music, Dream, Appreciation

• The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Responsibility, Men

  "Resistance, Rebellion, and Death" by Albert Camus, "The Artist and His Time", 1960.

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

  Albert Camus

  Art, Giving, Art Is

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

  Albert Camus

  Art, Struggle, Artist

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

  Albert Camus

  Life, Art, Freedom

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• After all perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of creation, unbearable solitude and the exhausting crowd, rejection and consent.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Pain, Lying

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

  Albert Camus

  Art, Culture, Creation

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.212, Vintage

• We have art in order not to die of life.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Order, Dies

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.93, Vintage

• A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Work, Simple

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.17, Vintage

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

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.253, Vintage

• In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul

  Albert Camus

  Art, Dark, Order

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.15, Vintage

• Art and revolt will die only with the last man.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Men, Lasts

• And often he who has chosen the fate of the artist because he felt himself to be different soon realizes that he can maintain neither his art nor his difference unless he admits that he is like the others. The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Fate, Differences

• At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise . . . that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.

  Albert Camus

  Beauty, Art, Lying

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.14, Vintage

• It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Sea, Giving

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.73, Vintage

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

  Albert Camus

  Art, Design, Triumph

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.97, Vintage

• To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Writing, Disinterest

  Albert Camus (1963). “Carnets: 1935-1942”

• Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which are quite satisfied with mere imitation. In fact, art is never realistic though sometimes it is tempted to be. To be really realistic a description would have to be endless.

  Albert Camus

  Religious, Art, Mean

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.270, Vintage

• Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Meaning Of Life, Life Has No Meaning

• 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

  Art, Philosophy, Thinking

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.99, Vintage

• There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and life of each person who has known and loved it.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Ends, Insight

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