An artist is only an artist on condition that he neglects no aspect of his dual nature. This … - Charles Baudelaire

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There's no such thing as legacies. At least, there is a legacy, but I'll never see it.

Charles Baudelaire

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 and someone else at one and the same time.

Art, Dual, Dual Nature, Inspiring, Neglects, Oneself

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To dream magnificently is not a gift given to all men, and even for those who possess it, it runs a strong risk of being progressively diminished by the ever-growing dissipation of modern life and by the restlessness engendered by material progress. The ability to dream is a divine and mysterious ability; because it is through dreams that man communicates with the shadowy world which surrounds him. But this power needs solitude to develop freely; the more one concentrates, the more one is likely to dream fully, deeply.

Divine, Dream, Magnificently, Running, Runs, Strong

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

Beauty, Ingredient, Ingredients, Necessary, Strangeness

You have to be always drunk. That's all there is to it-it's the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk. But on what? Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be drunk.

Drunk, Earth, Horrible, Wine, Wish

Nothing can be done except little by little.

Done, Except, Literature, Nothing, Perseverance

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.

Art, Color, Infinite, Mean, Towards, Word

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It's so crazy because kids that wrote to me when they were 14 years old are still in my life. A lot have gone on to become musicians and artists in their own right who inspire me now.

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Repression is not the way to virtue. When people restrain themselves out of fear, their lives are by necessity diminished. Only through freely chosen discipline can life be enjoyed and still kept within the bounds of reason.

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There's a new slimming course just out where they remove all your bones. Not only do you weigh less, but you also look so much more relaxed.

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Christopher Buckley

One realization does dawn upon the death of the second parent, namely that you've now moved into the green room to the River Styx. You're next.

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