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We dont need no education
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I would like to paint the way a bird sings. - Claude Monet
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
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Whodunnit??
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Great not just because it was produced by a woman
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An ancient dick pic
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Kim K. has nothing on Courbet
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Build like the Egyptians
Advertise your god-complex
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These serpents made hiss-tory
Pronunciation: /byo͞oˈkälik/
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Those Swiss have got it all!
From The Story of Nastagio degli Onesti (Part I) by Sandro Botticelli in the Prado.
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Oh shit!
Sexism sucks
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(German) Pronunciation: Bahk-fye-fen-geh-see-ckt
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