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What is art? Prostitution. - Charles Baudelaire

What is art? Prostitution. – Charles Baudelaire

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I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me. – Charles Baudelaire

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Madness
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Charles Baudelaire
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An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion. – Charles Baudelaire

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Beauty
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Charles Baudelaire
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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week. – Ezra Pound

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Art

The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such. – Og Mandino

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Art

Pictures must not be too picturesque. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Art

Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go mad, and cashiers; but creative artists very seldom. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Orthodoxy

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Art

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…a bourgeois barrenness… depressingly alien from that dainty boudoir atmosphere of the artist-life she knew. – Israel Zangwill, Dreamers of the Ghetto, “From a Mattress Grave,” 1897

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The Australian Governments decision to take on the dominant funding role for the entire public hospital system is designed to: end the blame game eliminate waste and to shoulder the funding burden of the rapidly rising health costs of the future. – Kevin Rudd

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Im not sure if its good to have freedom or not. Im really confused now. – Jackie Chan

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Now, everybody, I suppose, is aware that in recent years the silly business of divination by dreams has ceased to be a joke and has become a very serious science. – Arthur Machen

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