8 Albert Camus Quotes on Creativity

Albert Camus quotes on creativity

50. A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape. Likewise, a man's sole creation is strengthened in its successive and multiple aspects: his works. One after another they complement one another, correct or overtake one another, contradict one another, too. If something brings creation to an end, it is not the victorious and illusory cry of the blinded artist: 'I have said everything,' but the death of the creator which closes his experiences and the book of his genius. That effort, that superhuman consciousness are not necessarily apparent to the reader. There is no mystery in human creation. Will performs this miracle. But at least there is no true creation without a secret. To be true, a succession of works can be but a series of approximations of the same thought. But it is possible to conceive of another type of creator proceeding by juxtaposition. Their words may seem to be devoid of inter-relations, to a certain degree, they are contradictory. But viewed all together, they resume their natural groupings.

119. Creating is living doubly.

120. Differences are the roots without which the tree of liberty, the sap of creation and of civilization, dries up.

181. One of the temptations of an artist is to believe himself solitary ...But this is not true. He stands in the midst of all, in the same rank

194. The contrary of a civilized nation is a creative nation.

210. The philosopher, even if he is Kant, is a creator.

229. To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate.

230. To create today is to create dangerously. . . Danger makes men classical, and all greatness, after all, is rooted in risk.