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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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Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with mans physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed. – 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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Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. – Charles Baudelaire

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Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it. – Robert Motherwell

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Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. – Boris Pasternak

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Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. – Jonathan Swift

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There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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