• But no work of genius has ever been based on hatred and contempt. This is why the artist, at the end of his slow advance, absolves instead of condemning.
  • Exhausted, he was sitting there waiting, with his hands, palms up, on his knees. He told himself that now he would never again work, he was happy.
  • "The Artist at Work" (Jonas, ou l'artiste au travail) is a short story by the French writer Albert Camus from Exile and the Kingdom (L'Exil et le royaume, 1957).
  • “Such amazing optimism seems dead today,” writes Camus. “In most cases the artist is ashamed of himself and his privileges, if he has any.
  • From Create Dangerously:The Power and Responsibility of the Artist by Albert Camus. Copyright © 1958 by Editions GALLIMARD.
  • Because of this, Camus strongly believes that separating the artist from their work destroys any chance for finding value in art.
  • For Camus, great art develops between the two chasms of frivolity and propaganda, where every step forward is a dangerous one.
    Bulunamadı: work
  • Albert Camus was born on 7 November 1913 in a working-class neighbourhood in Mondovi (present-day Dréan), in French Algeria.
  • "Resistance, Rebellion, and Death" by Albert Camus, "The Artist and His Time", 1960.
  • Albert Camus was born on 7 November 1913 in a working-class neighbourhood in Mondovi (present-day Dréan), in French Algeria.