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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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• ‟ 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 fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.

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• ‟ What is art? Prostitution.

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• ‟ Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

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• ‟ It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.

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• ‟ Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

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• ‟ Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

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