Charles Baudelaire Quotes
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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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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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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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There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.
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Progress, this great heresy of decay.
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Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.
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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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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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Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
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Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.
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Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
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Ces beaux et grands navires, imperceptiblement balancés (dandinés) sur les eaux tranquilles, ces robustes navires, à l'air désœuvré et nostalgique, ne nous disent-ils pas dans une langue muette : Quand partons-nous pour le bonheur?
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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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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.
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Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.
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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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Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.
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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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It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
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There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite.
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A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle.
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Genius is childhood recalled at will.
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God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.
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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.