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Remy de Gourmont - From the Art category:
Art is the flower of life and, as seed, it gives back life. (Remy de Gourmont)
Remy de Gourmont - From the Beauty category:
Since art is the expression of beauty and beauty can be understood only in the form of the material elements of the true idea it contains, art has become almost uniquely feminine. Beauty is woman, and also art is woman. (Remy de Gourmont)
Remy de Gourmont - From the Desire category:
Art includes everything that stimulates the desire to live – science, everything that sharpens the desire to know. Art, even the most disinterested, the most disembodied, is the auxiliary of life. (Remy de Gourmont)
Remy de Gourmont - From the Eroticism category:
Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion... Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art. (Remy de Gourmont)
Remy de Gourmont - From the Intellect category:
Intelligence, that sublimation of the sensibility, that organ of the need to know, is sterilized sensibility. (Remy de Gourmont)
Remy de Gourmont - From the Knowledge category:
Knowledge has its end in itself, apart from any idea of life and propagation of the species. (Remy de Gourmont)
Remy de Gourmont - From the Senses category:
Born of the sensibility, art sows and creates life in its turn. (Remy de Gourmont)
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