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Albert Camus - From the Achievement category:
An achievement is a bondage. It obliges one to a higher achievement. (Albert Camus)
Albert Camus - From the Aging category:
The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he dies blind. (Albert Camus)
Albert Camus - From the Art category:
If all the world were clear, art would not exist. (Albert Camus)
Albert Camus - From the Art category:
We have art in order not to die of life. (Albert Camus)
Albert Camus - From the Communication category:
There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom of each person who has known and loved it. (Albert Camus)
Albert Camus - From the Confidence category:
It is very true that we seldom confide in those who are better than ourselves. (Albert Camus)
Albert Camus - From the Criticism category:
In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary. (Albert Camus)
Albert Camus - From the Culture category:
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)
Albert Camus - From the Depression category:
In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer. (Albert Camus)
Albert Camus - From the Discovery category:
A man's life 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)
Albert Camus - From the Dissatisfaction category:
Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is. (Albert Camus)
Albert Camus - From the Earth category:
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. (Albert Camus)
Albert Camus - From the Freedom category:
Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom. (Albert Camus)
Albert Camus - From the Freedom category:
Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better. (Albert Camus)
Albert Camus - From the Freedom category:
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. (Albert Camus)
Albert Camus - From the Friendship category:
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend. (Albert Camus)
Albert Camus - From the Future category:
Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future. (Albert Camus)
Albert Camus - From the Gender category:
Women are all we know of paradise on this earth. (Albert Camus)
Albert Camus - From the Generosity category:
Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present. (Albert Camus)
Albert Camus - From the Genius category:
I don't want to be a genius – I have enough problems just trying to be a man. (Albert Camus)
Albert Camus - From the Greatness category:
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door. (Albert Camus)
Albert Camus - From the Happiness category:
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. (Albert Camus)
Albert Camus - From the Happiness category:
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads? (Albert Camus)
Albert Camus - From the Ideas category:
I have the loftiest idea, and the most passionate one, of art. Much too lofty to agree to subject it to anything. Much too passionate to want to divorce it from anything. (Albert Camus)
Albert Camus - From the Innocence category:
Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being. (Albert Camus)
Albert Camus - From the Innocence category:
Each man insists on being innocent, even if it means accusing the whole human race, and heaven. (Albert Camus)
Albert Camus - From the Integrity category:
Integrity has no need of rules. (Albert Camus)
Albert Camus - From the Intellect category:
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. (Albert Camus)
Albert Camus - From the Joy category:
I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know that there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness. (Albert Camus)
Albert Camus - From the Life category:
You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. (Albert Camus)
Albert Camus - From the Life category:
I would rather live my life as if there is a God, and die to find out that there is not, than live my life as if there is not and die to find that there is. (Albert Camus)
Albert Camus - From the Loneliness category:
Ah, mon cher for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful. (Albert Camus)
Albert Camus - From the Love category:
I conceived at least one great love in my life, of which I was always the object. (Albert Camus)
Albert Camus - From the Meaning category:
If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be meaningless recreation. (Albert Camus)
Albert Camus - From the Mediocrity category:
Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre. (Albert Camus)
Albert Camus - From the Mistakes category:
Mistakes are joyful, truth infernal. (Albert Camus)
Albert Camus - From the Morality category:
In a world that has ceased to believe in sin, the artist is responsible for the preaching. (Albert Camus)
Albert Camus - From the Nature category:
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. (Albert Camus)
Albert Camus - From the Patriotism category:
I love my country too much to be a nationalist. (Albert Camus)
Albert Camus - From the Philosophy category:
Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. (Albert Camus)
Albert Camus - From the Potential category:
I don't want to represent man as he is, but only as he might be. (Albert Camus)
Albert Camus - From the Questions category:
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question. (Albert Camus)
Albert Camus - From the Rejection category:
Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world. (Albert Camus)
Albert Camus - From the Risk category:
Art advances between two chasms, which are frivolity and propaganda. On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lies the freedom of art. (Albert Camus)
Albert Camus - From the Simplicity category:
The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.' (Albert Camus)
Albert Camus - From the Struggle category:
It's not the struggle that makes us artists, but Art that makes us struggle. (Albert Camus)
Albert Camus - From the Truth category:
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. (Albert Camus)
Albert Camus - From the Universe category:
-The Stranger, 1942
I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed, so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still. (Albert Camus)
Albert Camus - From the Words category:
The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore. (Albert Camus)
Albert Camus - From the Work category:
Without work all life goes rotten. (Albert Camus)
Albert Camus - From the Work category:
-b.1913 d.1960...
What doesn't kill me makes me stronger. (Albert Camus)
Albert Camus - From the Writing category:
Those who write clearly have readers. (Albert Camus)
Albert Camus - From the Writing category:
A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it. (Albert Camus)
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