Albert Camus Quotes about Art

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

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.

Art does not tolerate reason.

Albert Camus

Art, Doe, Reason

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

Albert Camus

Art, Giving, Art Is

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

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

Albert Camus

Art, Hipster, Needs

Albert Camus (1969). “Notebooks”

On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays the freedom of Art.

Albert Camus

Art, Moving, Adventure

Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.268, Vintage

...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 freedom there is no art.

Albert Camus

Art

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

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

Art and revolt will die only with the last man.

Albert Camus

Art, Men, Lasts

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

You make the mistake of thinking you have to choose, that you have to do what you want, that there are conditions for happiness. What matters — all that matters, really is the will to happiness, a kind of enormous, ever present consciousness. The rest - women , art, success — is nothing but excuses. A canvas waiting for our embroideries.

Albert Camus

Art, Mistake, Thinking

"Happy Death".

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

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

Albert Camus

Art, Struggle, Artist

To me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of men by providing them with a privileged image of our common joys and woes.

Albert Camus

Art, Mean, Men

Albert Camus (1958). “Speech of acceptance upon the award of the Nobel prize for literature: delivered in Stockholm on the tenth of December, nineteen hundred and fifty-seven”

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

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.

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

A work of art is a confession.

Albert Camus

Art, Confession, Art Is

Albert Camus (1963). “Notebooks”

Albert Camus Quotes about Art

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