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Quote of Albert Camus - True artists scorn nothing: they are...


Biography - Albert Camus:

French philosopher, author, and journalist. Nobel Prize in Literature (1957).
Born: 1913 - Died: 1960
Period:
20th century
Place of birth: Algeria
Algeria

True artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.


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Translation

(French, German)



French
Les vrais artistes ne méprisent rien ; ils s’obligent à comprendre au lieu de juger.

German
Die wahren Künstler betrachten nichts mit Verachtung; sie fühlen sich verpflichtet, zu verstehen, nicht zu richten.




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Painters understand nature and love her and teach us to see.

I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions.

The more I think about it the more I feel that there’s nothing more genuinely artistic than to love people.

Personally, I enjoy understanding people more than judging them.




Quotes for: to understand


Quotes

Quotes for: to understand


Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.





The best means of learning to know oneself is seeking to understand others.





The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.





Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.





Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.





It is perfectly true, as the philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.











Quotes for: judgement


Quotes

Quotes for: judgement


Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.





Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed; for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess. And in this it is not likely that all are mistaken: the conviction is rather to be held as testifying that the power of judging aright and of distinguishing truth from error, which is properly what is called good sense or reason, is by nature equal in all men; and that the diversity of our opinions, consequently, does not arise from some being endowed with a larger share of reason than others, but solely from this, that we conduct our thoughts along different ways, and do not fix our attention on the same objects. For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.





Haste in judgement is to look for guilt.





A judgment can be refuted, but never a prejudice.





It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.





Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day.











Quotes for: artist


Quotes

Quotes for: artist


Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.





The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.





Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.





Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.





Great artists have no country.





Every human being should be an artist. Everything can become beautiful art.
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Quotes

Albert Camus also said...


The need to be right - the sign of a vulgar mind.





In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.





The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.





There are more things to admire in men than to despise.





The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.





Freedom is not constituted primarily of privilege but of responsibilities.












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