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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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An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion. – Charles Baudelaire

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Beauty
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Charles Baudelaire
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The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs. – Charles Baudelaire

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Music
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Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally goodness is always the product of some art. – Charles Baudelaire

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Art

Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware of the often grotesque disconnect between commentary on the arts and the actual practice or production of the arts. – Camille Paglia

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Art

In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character there was nothing particularly new about this – death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper. – Terry Pratchett

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Art

Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience. – Jon Bon Jovi

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Art

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That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful. – Ninon de L’Enclos

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