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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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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

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Art is an attempt to integrate evil. – Simone de Beauvoir

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The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal. – Pope Paul VI

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Art is creative for the sake of realization, not for amusement… for transfiguration, not for the sake of play. – Max Beckmann

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I think an artists responsibility is more complex than people realize. – Jodie Foster

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