Quote by Charles Baudelaire
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nat

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? – Charles Baudelaire

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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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The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present. – Charles Baudelaire

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True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance. – Alexander Pope

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People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when its simply necessary to love. – Claude Monet

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Art is an attempt to integrate evil. – Simone de Beauvoir

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Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. – Aristotle

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