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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

Other quotes by Charles Baudelaire

In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us. – Charles Baudelaire

Category:
Literary
Author
Charles Baudelaire
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The whole visible universe is but a storehouse of images and signs to which the imagination will give a relative place and value; it is a sort of pasture which the imagination must digest and transform. – Charles Baudelaire

Category:
Symbols
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Charles Baudelaire
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Art
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Art is the objectification of feeling. – Herman Melville

Category:
Art

Once you take yourself too seriously the art will suffer. – Maynard James Keenan

Category:
Art

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man. – Edward Steichen

Category:
Art

I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song Radio Gaga. – Lady Gaga

Category:
Art

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Acquisition means life to miserable mortals. – Hesiod

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Never marry for money. Yell borrow it cheaper. – Scottish Proverb

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Its not about division. Its not about politics. My concern is how do we come together? – LeVar Burton

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Our subjective experience of time is highly variable. We all know that days can pass like weeks and months can feel like years, and that the opposite can be just as true: A month or year can zoom by in what feels like no time at all. – Joshua Foer

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Experience