Albert Camus Quotes About Creation

• The Four Conditions of Happiness: Life in the open air, Love for another being,Freedom from ambition,Creation

  Albert Camus

  Happiness, Ambition, Air

• 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

• Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

  Albert Camus

  Future, Perfect, Art And Culture

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

• On certain mornings, as we turn a corner,
  an exquisite dew falls on our heart
  and then vanishes.
  But the freshness lingers, and this, always,
  is what the heart needs.
  The earth must have risen in just such a light
  the morning the world was born.

  Albert Camus

  Morning, Fall, Heart

• It is better for the intellectual not to talk all the time. To begin with, it would exhaust him, and, above all, it would keep him from thinking. He must create if he can, first and foremost, especially if his creation does not side-step the problems of his time.

  Albert Camus

  Thinking, Intellectual, Doe

• In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary.

  Albert Camus

  Art, Real, Criticism

  Albert Camus (2013). “The Rebel”, p.213, Penguin UK

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

  Albert Camus

  Rejection, Unity, Artistic Creation

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.253, Vintage

• But the world itself has no reason, and I can say so, I who have experienced it all, from the creation to the destruction.

  Albert Camus

  Age, Experience, World

• There is a metaphysical honour in ending the world's absurdity. Conquest or play-acting, multiple loves, absurd revolt are tributes that man pays to his dignity in a campaign in which he is defeated in advance.... War cannot be negated. One must live it or die of it. So it is with the absurd: it is a question of breathing with it, of recognizing its lessons and recovering their flesh. In this regard the absurd joy par excellence is creation. "Art and nothing but art", said Nietzsche, "we have art in order not to die of the truth."

  Albert Camus

  Art, War, Men

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