“It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.”
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.”
PoetryAll Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
“What is art? Prostitution.”
Art“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“Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.”
Art“Always be a poet, even in prose.”
Poetry“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“Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.”
Nature“Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.”
Nature“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“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“There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.”
Respect“For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.”
Finance“Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.”
Beauty“It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.”
Beauty“A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.”
Art“Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally goodness is always the product of some art.”
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“I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.”
Nature“Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.”
Best“This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.”
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