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What is art? Prostitution. - Charles Baudelaire

What is art? Prostitution. – Charles Baudelaire

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True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin. – Charles Baudelaire

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Sin
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Charles Baudelaire
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There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent. – Charles Baudelaire

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Virtue
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Charles Baudelaire
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Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Art

To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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Art

Life is the art of being well deceived and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted. – William Hazlitt

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Art

Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they cant articulate. – Mos Def

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Art

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I like to stay at home and make cinema in my head. – Eric Cantona

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Home

Eat, drink and be scary. – Author Unknown

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Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. – Charles Baudelaire

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Art

My comedy is for children from three to 93. You do need a slightly childish sense of humour and if you havent got that, its very sad. – Norman Wisdom

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sad