Charles BaudelaireThe study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being vanquished.
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The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being vanquished. It is a duel where death is always present, for art is born of life. When we look at the universe around us, we see life, and we see beauty. We see beauty because there are living things that are alive.
There are things that are beautiful because they are alive. We take them as symbols of life itself, just as we take the sun, music, and poetry as symbols of the vital forces that drive our lives.
Source: Twenty Prose Poems
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