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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J'ai toujours été étonné qu'on laissât les femmes entrer dans les églises. Quelle conversation peuvent-elles avoir avec Dieu?
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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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What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.
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Everything for me becomes allegory.
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Soon we shall plunge into the cold darkness; Farewell, vivid brightness of our short-lived summers!
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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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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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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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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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Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.
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'En toi je tomberai, végétale ambroisie,Grain précieux jeté par l'éternel Semeur,Pour que de notre amour naisse la poésieQui jaillira vers Dieu comme une rare fleur!'
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Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses.
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Et à quoi bon exécuter des projets, puisque le projet est en lui-même une jouissance suffisante?
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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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It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
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Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.
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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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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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Swarming city, city full of dreams, Where the ghosts in broad daylight hang up the passers-by!
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La Nature est un temple où de vivants piliersLaissent parfois sortir de confuses paroles;L’homme y passe à travers des forêts de symbolesQui l’observent avec des regards familiers.
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Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.
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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.