“ If the world were clear, art would not exist. ”
Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (1942). copy citation
Author | Albert Camus |
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Source | The Myth of Sisyphus |
Topic | world clarity art |
Date | 1942 |
Language | English |
Reference | |
Note | Translated by Justin O'Brien |
Weblink | http://www2.hawaii.edu/~freeman/courses/phil360/16.%20Myth%20of%20Sisyph... |
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“The work then embodies an intellectual drama. The absurd work illustrates thought's renouncing of its prestige and its resignation to being no more than the intelligence that works up appearances and covers with images what has no reason. If the world were clear, art would not exist. I am not speaking here of the arts of form or color in which description alone prevails in its splendid modesty.[ 18] Expression begins where thought ends. Those adolescents with empty eyesockets who people temples and museums—their philosophy has been expressed in gestures.”
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