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Art Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
- Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.
- Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
- Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
- To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available…
- It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
- In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious,…
- 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…
- What is art? Prostitution.
- A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
- It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.
- Art is an infinitely precious good, a draught both refreshing and cheering which restores the stomach and the mind to the natural equilibrium of the…
- Since photography gives us every guarantee of exactitude that we could desire (they really believe that, the mad fools !), then photography and art are…
- The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief.
- If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely thanks to the…
- The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.
- An artist is only an artist on condition that he neglects no aspect of his dual nature. This dualism is the power of being oneself…
- Blessed art Thou, Lord, who giveth suffering As a divine remedy for our impurities.
- In art, there is one thing which does not receive sufficient attention. The element which is left to the human will is not nearly so…
- The beautiful is always bizarre.
- Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.
- Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.
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