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

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

Charles Baudelaire
Art, Criticism, Born
Charles Baudelaire, Jonathan Mayne (1981). “Art in Paris 1845-1862: salons and other exhibitions”

If photography is allowed to supplement art in some of its functions, it will soon have supplanted or corrupted it altogether, thanks to the stupidity of the multitude which is its natural ally.

Charles Baudelaire
Photography, Art, Stupidity
Charles Baudelaire, Jonathan Mayne (1981). “Art in Paris 1845-1862: salons and other exhibitions”

...an industry which can furnish results identical to nature must be the absolute in art.

Charles Baudelaire
Art, Results, Identical

If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely thanks to the natural support it will find in the stupidity of the multitude. It must return to its real task, which is to be the servant of the sciences and the arts, but the very humble servant, like printing and shorthand which have neither created nor supplanted literature.

Charles Baudelaire
Photography, Art, Real
1859 'Salon of 1859', section 2, in Curiosites Esthetiques (1868).

In the domain of painting and statuary, the present-day credo of the worldly wise, especially in France, is this: ... I believe that art is, and can only be, the exact reproduction of nature... An avenging God has heard the prayers of this multitude; Daguerre was his messiah.

Charles Baudelaire
Wise, Art, Prayer

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