Quote by Charles Baudelaire
Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which m

Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected. – 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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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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Genius
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You say a new era in art is preparing you sensed it coming continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest. – Paul Cezanne

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Art

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Art

Wolfgang Tillmans stunning large-scale pictures, being shown for the first time, were so offhand I failed to see them as art. – Jerry Saltz

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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory. – Francis Bacon

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Art

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Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt. – Martin Scorsese

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When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat? – Chuck Palahniuk

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