“Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally goodness is always the product of some art.”
Art
“The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.”
BeautyAll Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
“Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?”
Art“Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.”
Nature“Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!”
Beauty“Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.”
Best“Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.”
Art“It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.”
Poetry“There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.”
Respect“The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.”
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“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“The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.”
Beauty“Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.”
Food“It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.”
Beauty“Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.”
Religion“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“I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.”
Love“This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.”
Change“I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.”
Beauty“Music fathoms the sky.”
Music