I was quite surprised that there is no proper dA club dedicated to the magnificent Decadent movement. So I did not hesitate even a second to create one. Our club is now one week old. What is one week? Not that much, especially here, on dA. Nevertheless we managed to form quite a club, with warm atmosphere and submissions of a high standard.

What is the theme of the club? This is the most frequent question.  Artifice over nature, art somewhat influenced by the tradition of the Gothic novel and by the poetry and fiction of Edgar Allan Poe, part dark/part sarcastic/part pessimistic, the borders are quite broad. If you are interested in joining all you need to do is to note us.

So here, for your consideration are our first submissions, deviant and decadent.



They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. - Edgar Allan Poe





Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into. ~Henry Beecher, Life Thoughts, 1858





Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. -Oscar Wilde





There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us. - Oscar Wilde





All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream. - Edgar Allan Poe



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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. - Edvard Munch



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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly. - Oscar Wilde



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Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art. - Charles Pierre Baudelaire



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It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living. - Guy de Maupassant



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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. - Oscar Wilde



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The basis of optimism is sheer terror. - Oscar Wilde



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This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last... - Oscar Wilde  



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If you enjoyed the choice artworks feel free to +fav this article and watch our club, if you would like to participate - please note us and we will review your candidature,

The dADecadents

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