Quote by Charles Baudelaire
A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything els

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else. – Charles Baudelaire

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There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create. – Charles Baudelaire

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The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute. – Charles Baudelaire

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I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people. – Mikhail Baryshnikov

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Were going to shoot one Polaroid per show. Im going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, its worth a fortune. Ill make this a work of magic warlock art. – Charlie Sheen

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Everyone goes to the same exhibitions and the same parties, stays in the same handful of hotels, eats at the same no-star restaurants, and has almost the same opinions. I adore the art world, but this is copycat behavior in a sphere that prides itself on independent thinking. – Jerry Saltz

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To array a mans will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. – Henry Ward Beecher

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Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man dislike to wade into its waters. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy. – Cathy Guisewite

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