Charles Baudelaire Quotes
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There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.
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Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.
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Il faut travailler, sinon par goût, au moins par désespoir, puisque, tout bien vérifié, travailler est moins ennuyeux que s'amuser.
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L'observateur est un prince qui jouit partout de son incognito. L'amateur de la vie fait du monde sa famille, comme l'amateur du beau sexe compose sa famille de toutes les beautés trouvées, trouvables et introuvables; comme l'amateur de tableaux vit dans une société enchantée de rêves peints sur toile.
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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.
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Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.
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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.
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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.
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The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.
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Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
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Swarming city, city full of dreams, Where the ghosts in broad daylight hang up the passers-by!
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It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
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In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.
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Il y a dans tout homme, à toute heure, deux postulations simultanées, l'une vers Dieu, l'autre vers Satan.
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I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.
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There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.
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Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.
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Everything for me becomes allegory.
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Le génie n'est que l'enfance retrouvée à volonté, l'enfance douée maintenant, pour s'exprimer, d'organes virils et de l'esprit analytique qui lui permet d'ordonner la somme de matériaux involontairement amassée.
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God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.
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France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.
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This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
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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.
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Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.