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The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.

The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.

Albert Camus

Art, Simplicity, Scales

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

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, Ideas, Choices

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

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

[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

Art, Judging, Criticism

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

Art, Men, Order

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.276, 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

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

Art, Divorce, Ideas

Albert Camus (1965). “Notebooks, 1942-1951”

In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips.

Albert Camus

Art, Experts, Painting

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