Albert Camus Quotes

Never has there been a close study of how necessary to a man are the experiences which we clumsily call aesthetic

Beauty, which is what is meant by art, using the word in its widest sense, is, I contend, no mere accident to human life, which people can take or leave as they choose, but a positive necessity of life.

The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.

Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.

I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.

There is a role and function for beauty in our time.

The beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself.

Art is truth.

Beauty, which I admit to being in pursuit of, is an extremely suspect word among many in the art world. But I don't think you can get along without it. It's the confirmation of meaning in life.

Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.

It has been said that beauty is a promise of happiness. Conversely, the possibility of pleasure can be a beginning of beauty.

Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in everyday life.

The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.

Even luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible - and this is Art.

I think it's ultimately inhuman to only see things for their functionality. We want things to be more than that. The desire for beauty is something that's in us, and it's not trivial.

The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty.

Everything is beautiful. Pop is everything.

Art matters not merely because it is the most magnificent ornament and the most nearly unfailing occupation of our lives, but because it is life itself.

I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares, as opposed to ugly things. That's my intent.

Art always serves beauty, and beauty is the joy of possessing form, and form is the key to organic life since no living thing can exist without it.

Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem.

When I see beautiful clothes, I want to keep them, preserve them... Clothes, like architecture and art, reflect an era.

There is to my mind no doubt that the concept of beautiful had its roots in sexual excitation and that its original meaning was sexually stimulating.

Art cannot be separated from life. It is the expression of the greatest need of which life is capable, and we value art not because of the skilled product, but because of its revelation of a life's experience.

Beauty is not a means, not a way of furthering a thing in the world. It is a result; it belongs to ordering, to form, to aftereffect.