Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Blessed art Thou, Lord, who giveth suffering As a divine remedy for our impurities. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
An artist is only an artist on condition that he neglects no aspect of his dual nature. This dualism is the power… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The artist is today and has been for many years, despite his absence of merit, simply a spoiled child. So many honors,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
As for techniques and processes, as seen in the works themselves, neither public nor artists will find anything about them here. Those… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being vanquished.” — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
In art, there is one thing which does not receive sufficient attention. The element which is left to the human will is… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before he is defeated. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
...an industry which can furnish results identical to nature must be the absolute in art. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
If photography is allowed to supplement art in some of its functions, it will soon have supplanted or corrupted it altogether, thanks… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“Flesh is willing, but the Soul requires Sisyphean patience for its song, Time, Hippocrates remarked, is short and Art is long.” — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
A man who from the beginning has long been soaked in the languid atmosphere of a woman, the scent of her hands,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist”—Charles Baudelaire “The second greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“This life is a hospital in which each patient is possessed by the desire to change beds. One wants to suffer in front of… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
But the true voyagers are only those who leave Just to be leaving; hearts light, like balloons, They never turn aside from their fatality… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Amer savoir, celui qu'on tire du voyage! Bitter is the knowledge gained in travelling. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“I can barely conceive a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.” — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The vices of man, as full of horror as one might suppose them to be, contain the proof (if in nothing else but their… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
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