"Artistic creation is a demand for unity..." - Quote by Albert Camus

“If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.”

“Healthy people have a natural skill of avoiding feverish eyes.”

“…there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people smile, but the only means of fighting a plague is - common decency.”

“Each individual's success as a solo artist is pretty much a win for the whole team.”

“I paint the way someone bites his fingernails; for me, painting is a bad habit because I don't know nor can I do anything else.”

“Music bypasses the conceptual mind. Music does not give you food for thought.”

“Brooding, she changed the pool into the sea, and made the minnows into sharks and whales, and cast vast clouds over this tiny world by holding her hand against the sun, and so brought darkness and desolation, like God himself, to millions of ignorant and innocent creatures, and then took her hand away suddenly and let the sun stream down.”

“The way to mend the bad world is to create the right world.”

“you had nothing to say about it and yet made the nothing up into words.”