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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I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of touch. The soul is so impalpable, so often useless, and sometimes such a nuisance, that I felt no more emotion on losing it than if, on a stroll, I had mislaid my visiting card. – Charles Baudelaire

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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it. – Charles Baudelaire

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To catch a husband is an art to hold him is a job. – Simone de Beauvoir

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My love of fine art increased – the more of it I saw, the more of it I wanted to see. – Paul Getty

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Art gives me the freedom I dont have when I make music. – Marilyn Manson

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The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. – Francis Bacon

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