"Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are……" — Charles Baudelaire
"Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets."
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Charles Baudelaire
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266 Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire has 266 quotes on this site.
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It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk…
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Nothing can be done except little by little.
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I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
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I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a…
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Always be a poet, even in prose.
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Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.
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It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never…
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An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures,…
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How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new…
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There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
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The world only goes round by misunderstanding.
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Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.
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More Colour Quotes
This quote is filed under Colour Quotes,
one of 781 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers.
— Benjamin Banneker
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Have you seen the roses? There's a whole lot of colours.
— Syd Barrett
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I don't tend to do much with my lips. My lips are naturally very pink, so if I add any…
— Kate Beckinsale
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Clairvoyants can see flashes of colour, constantly changing, in the aura that surrounds every person: each thought, each feeling, thus…
— Annie Besant
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I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting,…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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I loved playing football. In this particular match the ball happened to hit my right eye, the only one which…
— Andrea Bocelli
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U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and…
— Bono
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Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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I wish myself to be a prop, if anything, for my songs. I want to be the vehicle for my…
— David Bowie
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I remember being on a black-and-white set all day and then going out into daylight and being amazed by the…
— Jeff Bridges
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I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.
— Josef Albers
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When I was in pre-production for Trees Lounge, I was hearing the cinematographer talking with the production designer about colours…
— Steve Buscemi
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