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 unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight. – Charles Baudelaire

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Men
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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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Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected. – Charles Baudelaire

Category:
Art
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All in the Family was intellectual it was art. – Carroll OConnor

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An artist never really finishes his work; he merely abandons it. – Paul Valéry

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Art

Envy is the art of counting the other fellows blessings instead of your own. – Harold Coffin

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Art

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I dont need. – Auguste Rodin

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Art

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Art is very tricky because its what you do for yourself. Its much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture. – Maya Lin

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