Marilyn Monroe on Beauty, Genius, and Avoiding Being Boring

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”

~ Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn

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Theophile Gautier on Creating Beauty from That Which Resists the Creative Process

“Yes, the work comes out more beautiful from a material that resists the process, verse, marble, onyx, or enamel.”

~ Theophile Gautier

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Charles Baudelaire on the Nature of Artists

“An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.”

~ Charles Baudelaire

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Theophile Gautier on Art and Beauty

“Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.”

~ Theophile Gautier

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