Quote by Charles Baudelaire
The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more

The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute. – Charles Baudelaire

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To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons. – 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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All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up. – James Baldwin

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To array a mans will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine. – Henry Ward Beecher

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While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality… true art lies in a reality that is felt. – Odilon Redon

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I dont need the money, dear. I work for art. – Maria Callas

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