An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.
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The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.Charles Baudelaire
Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.
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Angel of kindness, have you tasted hate?
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To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
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The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the most lasting joys the being towards or for whom all their efforts tend for whom and by whom fortunes are made and lost for whom, but especially by whom, artists and poets compose their most delicate jewels from whom flow the most enervating pleasures and the most enriching sufferings -- woman, in a word, is not, for the artist in general... only the female of the human species. She is rather a divinity, a star.
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There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.
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