Quotes and Sayings About Art
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Art and revolt will die only with the last man.
-- Albert Camus -
It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.
-- Albert Camus -
If the world were clear, art would not exist.
-- Albert Camus -
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 -
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 -
Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future.
-- Albert Camus -
In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul
-- Albert Camus -
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
-- Albert Camus -
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 -
In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary.
-- Albert Camus -
Just as all thought, and primarily that of non-signification, signifies something, so there is no art that has no signification.
-- Albert Camus -
To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
-- Albert Camus -
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 -
The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete. It marks the triumph of the carnal.
-- Albert Camus -
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. No great work has ever been based on hatred and contempt. On the contrary, 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 -
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 -
If we understood the enigmas of life there would be no need for art.
-- Albert Camus -
In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.
-- Albert Camus -
[Many artists], even the greatest ones, are not sure of their own existence. So they search for proof, they judge, they condemn. It strengthens them, it is the beginnings of existence. They are alone!
-- Albert Camus -
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 -
The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.
-- Albert Camus -
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 -
The first choice an artist makes is precisely to be an artist, and if he chooses to be an artist it is in consideration of what he is himself and because of a certain idea he has of art
-- Albert Camus -
Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his existence in the order of nature.
-- Albert Camus -
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 -
We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.
-- Albert Einstein -
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
-- Albert Einstein
