"Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?"
― Charles Baudelaire
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― Charles Baudelaire
More From 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."
- "It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish."
- "Nature… is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest."
More In Art
- "In law, nothing is certain but the expense."― Samuel Butler
- "I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin."― Norma Shearer
- "Venice is the perfect place for a phase of art to die. No other city on earth embraces entropy quite like this magical floating mall."― Jerry Saltz