Quotes by Albert Camus
All Quotes (12)
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Art... not the real alone, nor the imagination alone, but the imagination springing from the real.
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The dramatic work... the act of culture in which all people can find themselves.
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The great artist is a man who lives life with intensity; to live, having in this case the meaning of reflecting on life, establishing that subtle relationship between the experience and the knowledge gained from it.
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The artist creates himself in the perpetual and reciprocal movement from himself to others, halfway between the beauty that cannot be dispensed with and the collectivity from which it cannot be torn away. This is why true artists do not despise anything, they strive to understand instead of sanctioning.
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Art for me is not a solitary satisfaction. It remains a means of moving as many people as possible by giving them a privileged view of common sufferings and joys. As such, art forces the creator not to be an isolate, it submits him to the most humble and universal truth.
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In all the circumstances of his life, obscure or enjoying a temporary celebrity, thrown into the chains of tyranny or free for a time to express himself, the writer can find the feeling of a living community which will justify him, provided only that he accepts as much as he can the two missions that give nobility to his job: the service of truth and that of freedom.
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There is no revolutionary work without artistic greatness... Revolutionary art cannot do without artistic greatness without relapsing into the humblest forms of thought.
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Art... a revenge, a way to overcome a difficult fate by imposing form on it. We learn from it the mathematics of destiny, which means a means of freeing ourselves from it.
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Everything has its own truth. Consciousness is what enlightens him, through the attention he gives to it.
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I can deny a thing without feeling obliged to sully it and without robbing others of their right to believe in it.
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