Albert Camus Meets “Lord of the Rings”– with A Li’l Helen Lowe Thrown In

“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
Nobel Laureate for Literature, 1957

 

 

 

 

 

Fidelity is a beautiful word and I particularly like its use here. For me, the reference to daily fidelity encapsulates the day-to-day constancy that brings the artist back to easel or writing desk, to “gambaru” (another great word, from Japanese) until the work makes the essential metamorph...