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Quote by Charles Baudelaire
What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of

What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense. – Charles Baudelaire

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Our religion is itself profoundly sad – a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each mans own language – so long as he knows anguish and is a painter. – Charles Baudelaire

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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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No taste is so acquired as that for someone elses quality of mind. – Cyril Connolly

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Style is not neutral; it gives moral directions. – Martin Amis

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Style is a simple way of saying complicated things. – Jean Cocteau

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Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself. – Vicomte De Chateaubriand

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