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Charles Baudelaire

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally goodness is always the product of some art.

-Charles Baudelaire

art

What is art? Prostitution.

-Charles Baudelaire

art

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

-Charles Baudelaire

art

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

-Charles Baudelaire

art

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate good is always the product of an art.

-Charles Baudelaire

art

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

-Charles Baudelaire

art

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

-Charles Baudelaire

art

Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.

-Charles Baudelaire

art

It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.

-Charles Baudelaire

art

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

art

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

-Charles Baudelaire

beauty

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

-Charles Baudelaire

beauty

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

beauty

It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.

-Charles Baudelaire

beauty

Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!

-Charles Baudelaire

beauty

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.

-Charles Baudelaire

beauty

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

-Charles Baudelaire

beauty

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.

-Charles Baudelaire

beauty

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.

-Charles Baudelaire

beauty

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

-Charles Baudelaire

best

This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.

-Charles Baudelaire

change

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

-Charles Baudelaire

dreams

The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.

-Charles Baudelaire

family

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

-Charles Baudelaire

finance

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.

-Charles Baudelaire

food

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

-Charles Baudelaire

happiness

I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.

-Charles Baudelaire

love

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

-Charles Baudelaire

men

The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.

-Charles Baudelaire

men

I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.

-Charles Baudelaire

music

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

-Charles Baudelaire

music

Music fathoms the sky.

-Charles Baudelaire

music

Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.

-Charles Baudelaire

nature

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

-Charles Baudelaire

nature

Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.

-Charles Baudelaire

nature

I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.

Charles Baudelaire

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally goodness is always the product of some art.

What is art? Prostitution.

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate good is always the product of an art.

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.

It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.

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

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

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.

It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.

Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.

The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.

I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

Music fathoms the sky.

Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.

I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.

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