“Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.”
Art
“Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.”
WorkAll Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
“Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.”
Beauty“Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally goodness is always the product of some art.”
Art“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.”
Beauty“What is art? Prostitution.”
Art“Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?”
Art“This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.”
Change“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.”
Art“I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.”
Beauty“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.”
Art“It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.”
Poetry“It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.”
Beauty“Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.”
Work“There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.”
Beauty“Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.”
Poetry“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.”
Poetry“It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.”
Art“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“A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.”
Art“There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.”
Respect