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I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
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.
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate good is always the product of an art.
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.
What is art? Prostitution.