Best Charles Baudelaire Sayings
- The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things. Astonishing
- The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated. Artist
- To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing. Great
- To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches. Beating
- Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? Art
- Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one… Ambitious
- To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available… Art
- Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself. Amusing
- Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste. Ambition
- Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine. Divine
- I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust. Disgust
- If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force. Diminished
- In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us. Aristocracy
- It is from the womb of art that criticism was born. Art
- There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness. Beauty
- What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense. Aristocratic
- Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch… Any
- 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. Approach
- 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… Aquariums
- In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious,… Among
- The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely… All
- 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… Always Prefer
- 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… Beauty
- Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory… Art
- Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the… Anguish
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