Albert Camus Quotes

The work of art itself is . . . a vibrant, magical, and exemplary object which returns us to the world in some way more open and enriched.

What makes people the world over stand in line for Van Gogh is not that they will see beautiful pictures but that in an indefinable way they will come away feeling better human beings. And that is exactly what Van Gogh hoped for.

I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.

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

A certain strangeness, something of the blossoming of the aloe, is indeed an element in all true works of art: that they shall excite or surprise us is indispensable.

Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

Variety is more than a means of avoiding boredom, since art is more than an entertainment of the senses.

Great art should be shown with great excitement.

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

We believed that there's no such thing as good art or bad art. Art is art. If it's bad, it's something else. It was a much, much harder line in the '50s and '60s than it is now, because the idea of art education didn't exist - they didn't have a fine arts program when I was a kid.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.

I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person's soul.

The claims I'm making for art are simply the claims that we naturally make around music or around poetry. We're much more relaxed around those art forms. We're willing to ask, 'How could this find a place in my heart?'

That's really the whole point of art - it's to take something commonplace and draw people on a path so that, all of a sudden, they have a new impression of everything around them.

The beauty of art is that it allows you to slow down, and for a moment, things that once seemed unfamiliar become precious to you.

When you start to think of the arts as not this thing that is going to get you somewhere in terms of becoming an artist or becoming famous or whatever it is that people do, but rather a way of making being in the world not just bearable, but fascinating, then it starts to get interesting again.

I still hope that more people can create art, even though artistic genres may never be the most popular or money-making genres. But the thing is, I think art is more long-lasting. It stays in people, and it changes them.

The ultimate justification of the work of art is to help the spectator to become a work of art himself.

Art is not about objects of high monetary exchange. It's about reasserting our firsthand experience in present time.

The object of art like every other product creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty.

The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it.

I don't know if it's art, but I know I like it.