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In our corruption we perceive beauties unrevealed to ancient times.
Charles Baudelaire
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Charles Baudelaire
Age: 46 †
Born: 1821
Born: April 9
Died: 1867
Died: August 30
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Baudelaire
Charles Pierre Baudelaire-Dufaÿs
Charles Pierre Baudelaire
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In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love.
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The beautiful is always bizarre.
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To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
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Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
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To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.
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Being a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous.
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In the domain of painting and statuary, the present-day credo of the worldly wise, especially in France, is this: ... I believe that art is, and can only be, the exact reproduction of nature... An avenging God has heard the prayers of this multitude Daguerre was his messiah.
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Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal. For form is independent of matter: molecules do not constitute form.
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Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets.
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Our squalid society rushed, Narcissus to a man, to gaze on its trivial image on a scrap of metal.
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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.
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Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
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Nature is a temple, where the living Columns sometimes breathe confusing speech Man walks within these groves of symbols, each Of which regards him as a kindred thing.
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Photographers, you will never become artists. All you are is mere copiers.
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