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

Other quotes by Charles Baudelaire

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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Beauty
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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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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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Art
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Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman. – Guillaume Apollinaire

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Art

I dont need the money, dear. I work for art. – Maria Callas

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Art

At the University of Maryland, my first year I started off planning to major in art because I was interested in theatre design, stage design or television design. – Jim Henson

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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

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Yes we have a specific procedure which we follow in all cases where the Agency is in contact, for the purposes of acquiring intelligence or whatever the case may be, with an individual. – Richard M. Helms

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Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement. – Peter Drucker

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