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What is art? Prostitution. - Charles Baudelaire

What is art? Prostitution. – Charles Baudelaire

Other quotes by Charles Baudelaire

Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances. – Charles Baudelaire

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Nature
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Charles Baudelaire
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The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find. – Charles Baudelaire

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Family
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Charles Baudelaire
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Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. – Twyla Tharp

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Art

Galleries began growing in both number and size in the late seventies, when artists who worked in lofts wanted to exhibit their work in spaces similar to the ones the art was made in. – Jerry Saltz

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Art

Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality. – Salvador Dali

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Art

Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included. – Jerry Saltz

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Art

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The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know. – Simone Weil

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The act of bellringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people. – Ezra Pound

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Religion

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. – Calvin Coolidge

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Where the apple reddens never pry — lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I. – Robert Browning

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