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Charles Baudelaire

Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.

Charles Baudelaire

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Charles Baudelaire is saying that modernity in art represents the temporary and changeable aspects of life. These fleeting qualities are only one part of art, balanced by the other part, which is timeless and unchanging.

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