“Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?”– Charles Baudelaire Related Quotes “The greywastes was a basin overflowing with insanity, the very earth underneath me was only surviving because it was too mad to know it had died”— Quil Carter “Fish that boast in a pond should not boast in the ocean.”— Matshona Dhliwayo “The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower.”— Pietro Metastasio