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Quote by Charles Baudelaire
Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent,

Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable. – Charles Baudelaire

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Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction. – Charles Baudelaire

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Beauty
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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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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. – Pablo Picasso

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Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist. – Rene Magritte

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Art is anything you can get away with. – Marshall McLuhan

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