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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Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams. – Charles Baudelaire

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The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute. – Charles Baudelaire

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Art raises its head where creeds relax. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. – Paul Valery

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It took me twenty years to get Steven Parrinos work. From the time I first saw his art, in the mid-eighties, I almost always dismissed it as mannered, Romantic, formulaic, conceptualist-formalist heavy-metal boy-art abstraction. – Jerry Saltz

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In mathematics the art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it. – Georg Cantor

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