Quotes: Albert Camus

"There is no greatness without a little stubbornness. Works of art are not born in flashes of inspiration but in a daily fidelity." 

–– Albert Camus (1913-1960), French writer and philosopher 

Source: Maria Popova Instagram, August 21, 2023. 

via: Sketchbook 33, 2023, p. 88.

Quotes: Albert Camus

"In the midst of winter, I finally found there was within me an invincible summer. For the summer that we all have inside to manifest we need to open the heart and take risks." 

 –– Albert Camus (1913-1960), French writer and philosopher 

via: Art Alternatives Knapsack Sketchbook 2017-2018 d, 2017, p. 15.

Quotes 144: Albert Camus

"After all, perhaps the greatness of art lies in the perpetual tension between beauty and pain, the love of men and the madness of creation, unbearable solitude and the exhausting crowd, rejection and consent." 

–– Albert Camus (1913-1960), French writer and philosopher

via Book of Commonplace 2005-2006, p. 132

Quotes: Albert Camus

"A person's life purpose is nothing more than to rediscover, through the detours of art or love or passionate work, those one or two images in the presence of which his heart first opened." 

–– Albert Camus (1913-1960), French Algerian philosopher and writer. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1957.

Quotes: Albert Camus

"What gives value to travel is fear." –– Albert Camus (1913-1960), French philosopher
Source: Alan Morantz. Where is Here? Canada's Maps and the Stories They Tell. 2002, p. 3 via my book of commonplace.

Quotes: Normal?

"Nobody realizes that some people extend tremendous energy merely to be normal." – Albert Camus


"Why be happy when you could be normal?" – Jeanette Winterson, (title of her 2011 memoir)


"I live life in the margins of society and the rules of normal society don't apply to those who live on the fringe." – Tamara de Lempicka, Polish-Russian artistocrat & painter


"The trouble with normal is it always gets worse." – Bruce Cockburn


"My darling girl, when are you going to understand that 'normal' isn't a virtue? It rather denotes a lack of courage." – Stockard Channing as Frances Owens in Practical Magic