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
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
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
“The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being vanquished.” — 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
Artist should look at the reality and brutality of modern life in all its color, nature with all its imperfections - that… — 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
Photographers, you will never become artists. All you are is mere copiers. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing,… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
My concern today is with the painting of manners of the present. The past is interesting not only by reason of the… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
It is one of the prodigious privileges of art that the horrific, artistically expressed, becomes beauty, and that sorrow, given rhythm and… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which… — 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
