Albert Camus Quotes

No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.

An artist's flair is sometimes worth a scientist's brains.

All men are creative but few are artists.

Normal people do not create art.

An artist is a person who has invented an artist.

If Monsieur X spent an eternity studying treatises on optics, he would never paint 'La Grande Jatte.'

Someone who is an artist can say, 'I can create and can make what I create disappear.'

As in a love affair, two creative people can destroy themselves trying to recapture that youthful spirit, at twenty-one or twenty-four, of creating without even being aware of how it's happening

All the things an artist must be: poet, explorer of nature, philosopher!

I don't understand how people live without creating.

The artist is called a creator.

The moment we live in is a great time to make art. We have different technologies to play with, and we're left with the opportunity to focus on our work.

Great artistic talent in any direction... is hardly inherent to the man. It comes and goes; it is often possessed only for a short phase in his life; it hardly ever colors his character as a whole and has nothing to do with the moral and intellectual stuff of the mind and soul. Many great artists, perhaps most great artists, have been poor fellows indeed, whom to know was to despise.

An amateur may not be an artist, though an artist should be an amateur.

Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.

As an artist, you just want to keep creating, keep finding a place that really inspires you that feels fresh and new and keep it exciting.

Artists should never look at pictures, but should stutter in a language of their own.

All artists, they say, are a little mad. This madness is, to a certain extent, a self-created myth designed to keep the generality away from the phenomenally close-knit creative community. Yet, in the world of the artists, the consciously eccentric are always respectful and admiring if those who have the courage to be genuinely a little mad.

An artist must find his expression closely linked to his individual experience or else follow in the old grooves resulting in lifeless forms.

An artist is like a pig snouting truffles.

Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.

If an artist may say nothing except what he has invented by his own sole efforts, it stands to reason he will be poor in ideas. If he could take what he wants wherever he could find it, as Euripides and Dante and Michelangelo and Shakespeare and Bach were free, his larder would always be full, and his cookery might be worth tasting.

Those who say only artists and architects can create are the ones who are elitist.

Artists aren't looking for you to write them something; they're looking for you to give them something new.

At moments we are all artists.