Charles Baudelaire Quotes

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

Charles Baudelaire

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• You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Art
  • War
  • Enemy

• The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Best
  • Effort
  • Person

• No one succeeds without effort... Those who succeed owe their success to perseverance.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Success
  • Effort
  • Perseverance

• There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Art
  • Happiness

• If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Best
  • Positive
  • Effort

• Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Sun
  • Yellow

• No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Art
  • Beauty
  • Architecture

• Sports in Indonesia aren't being supported by the government. The rewards you get as a young player don't match the effort you put in. I want to be different from other athletes, if not better, and I want to make something good out of my profile and help the younger players have opportunities.

  

  Taufik Hidayat
  • Good
  • Different
  • Help

• If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Good
  • Men
  • Long

• Sometimes the right response to evil is an appeal to powerful and effective social organization - an appeal to civilization itself.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Evil
  • Powerful
  • Organization

• Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

  

  Kanye West
  • Music
  • Art
  • Opportunity

• I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Music
  • Art

• You have to be very careful with the art you create and you put out.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Art
  • You
  • Create

• An album is a whole universe, and the recording studio is a three-dimensional kind of art space that I can fill with sound. Just as the album art and videos are ways of adding more dimensions to the words and music. I like to be involved in all of it because it's all of a piece.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Music
  • Art
  • Words

• People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • People
  • Great
  • Easy

• The world of painting has nothing to do with the art world.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • World
  • Art
  • Painting

• There is no evil in the world without a remedy.

  

  Jacopo Sannazaro
  • World
  • Evil

• They did it wrong, Doc. They made mistakes. And they'll keep it this way, just because everyone wants to believe it. They don't want to know the truth, Doc. It's easier for everyone this way. If enough people believe the fantasy, well, then it becomes the reality. But we know, Doc. We know who belongs where, don't we?

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • People
  • Believe
  • Truth

• I guess I never had a better experience than working on The Long Riders, and at the same time, I never had a harder time than what I did making Southern Comfort.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Time
  • Long
  • Experience

• For most of my life, I’ve felt that there must be more to our existence than meets the eye. This is who I am, and you can’t expect me to be someone I’m not.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Life
  • Eye
  • Existence

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

  

  Charles Baudelaire
  • Art
  • Evil
  • Effort