“For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.”
Finance
“Music fathoms the sky.”
MusicAll Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
“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“The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.”
Men“Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.”
Dreams“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“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“A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.”
Art“Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.”
Art“Music fathoms the sky.”
Music“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“Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.”
Religion“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
Poetry“Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.”
Nature“There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.”
Respect“Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.”
Work“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“There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.”
Beauty“Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.”
Food“Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate good is always the product of an art.”
Art“It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.”
Art