Beauty Quotes by Charles Baudelaire

What do I care if you are good? Be beautiful! and be sad!

— Charles Baudelaire

Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty.

— Charles Baudelaire

Strangeness is an ingredient necessary in beauty.

— Charles Baudelaire

“The Beautiful is always strange.”

— Charles Baudelaire

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.

— Charles Baudelaire

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

— Charles Baudelaire

The beautiful is always bizarre.

— Charles Baudelaire

All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.

— Charles Baudelaire

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

— Charles Baudelaire

Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!

— Charles Baudelaire

Go then, a starveling girl With no perfume or pearls, Only your nudity O my beauty!

— Charles Baudelaire

“I can barely conceive a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.”

— Charles Baudelaire

Where one should see only what is beautiful, our public looks only for what is true.

— Charles Baudelaire

It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by…

— Charles Baudelaire

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.

— Charles Baudelaire

It is this admirable and immortal instinct for beauty which causes us to regard the earth and its spectacles as a glimpse,…

— Charles Baudelaire

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always…

— Charles Baudelaire

“That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal: from which it follows that irregularity - that is to say, the unexpected,…

— Charles Baudelaire

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which…

— Charles Baudelaire

The idea which man forms of beauty imprints itself throughout his attire, rumples or stiffens his garments, rounds off or aligns his…

— Charles Baudelaire

La' , tout n'est qu'ordre et beaute , Luxe, calme et volupte . There where all is order and beauty. Lush, calm and voluptuous.

— Charles Baudelaire

All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an…

— Charles Baudelaire

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in,…

— Charles Baudelaire

“—But why is she weeping? She, the perfect beauty, Who could put at her feet the conquered human race, What secret malady…

— Charles Baudelaire

“THE CAT Come, superb cat, to my amorous heart; Hold back the talons of your paws, Let me gaze into your beautiful…

— Charles Baudelaire

The idea of beauty which man creates for himself imprints itself on his whole attire, crumples or stiffens his dress, rounds off…

— Charles Baudelaire

What I have always found most beautiful in the theatre, in my childhood, and still today, is lustre--a beautiful object, luminous, crystalline,…

— Charles Baudelaire

My concern today is with the painting of manners of the present. The past is interesting not only by reason of the…

— Charles Baudelaire

All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory - of…

— Charles Baudelaire

These beings have no other status, but that of cultivating the idea of beauty in their own persons, of satisfying their passions,…

— Charles Baudelaire

Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of…

— Charles Baudelaire

“It is this admirable, this immortal, instinctive sense of beauty that leads us to look upon the spectacle of this world as…

— Charles Baudelaire

“With heart at rest I climbed the citadel's Steep height, and saw the city as from a tower, Hospital, brothel, prison, and…

— Charles Baudelaire

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before he is defeated.

— Charles Baudelaire

“The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being vanquished.”

— Charles Baudelaire

In our corruption we perceive beauties unrevealed to ancient times.

— Charles Baudelaire

For me, Romanticism is the most recent and the most current expression of beauty.

— Charles Baudelaire

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

— Charles Baudelaire

La, tout n’est qu’ordre et beauté Luxe, calme et volupté There, there is nothing else but grace and measure, Richness, quietness, and…

— Charles Baudelaire

It is one of the prodigious privileges of art that the horrific, artistically expressed, becomes beauty, and that sorrow, given rhythm and…

— Charles Baudelaire