Quote of Albert Camus - A man's work is nothing but...

Biography - Albert Camus:

French philosopher, author, and journalist. Nobel Prize in Literature (1957).
Born: 1913 - Died: 1960
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: Algeria
Algeria

Quote

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.”
Albert Camus

Quotes about heart:

Hope stole into my heart against my will.”
Jean Racine - Phèdre

Great thoughts come from the heart.”
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

heart

The heart has its reasons, of which reason knows nothing.”
Blaise Pascal - Pensées

Tears are shed in my heart like the rain on the town.”
Paul Verlaine - Il pleure dans mon coeur

heart

Here are fruits, flowers, leaves and branches,
And here is my heart which beats only for you. ”
Paul Verlaine - Green

All about heart...

Quotes about art:

Truly, art is embedded in nature; he who can extract it, has it.”
Albrecht Dürer

My trade and art is to live.”
Michel de Montaigne - Essays

The more I think about it the more I feel that there’s nothing more genuinely artistic than to love people.”
Vincent Willem van Gogh

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.”
Pablo Picasso

I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his 'divine service.'”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The Joyful Science

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.”
Marcus Aurelius

All about art...

Albert Camus also said...

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”
Albert Camus - L'Été

The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.”
Albert Camus - Chroniques

The need to be right - the sign of a vulgar mind.”
Albert Camus - Carnets

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.”
Albert Camus - The Plague

Freedom is not constituted primarily of privilege but of responsibilities.”
Albert Camus

Absurd is lucid reason noting its limits.”
Albert Camus

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