Art Quote by Charles Baudelaire

Youth -- nothing else worth having in the world...and I had youth, the transitory, the fugitive, now, completely and abundantly. Yet what was I…

— Richard Halliburton

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

— Charles Baudelaire

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

— Charles Baudelaire

Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.

— Charles Baudelaire

Perfect Scepticismeis a disease incurable, and a thing rather to be pitied or laughed at, then seriously opposed. For when aman is so fugitive…

— Henry More

There is no reality on this earth except religion and the power of love; all the rest is even more fugitive than life itself.

— Madame de Stael

You know, back in the 1950s and '60s, when J. Edgar Hoover was making the FBI the respected organization it used to be, oftentimes…

— Howie Carr

You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now…

— Franz Kafka

“There was no question that Jorge 'Billy' Nayor liked to get high; he just didn't think of himself as a drug dealer per se.…

— Dinosaur in the Park Jorge Nayor

I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs.

— Annie Dillard

Memory, with its fugitive adjustments, is the merciful veil to the grim enactments of the first law. It hides the anguish in the human…

— Stacy Aumonier

Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflections of the eternal. All beauty alters and all life melts away; in short, everything passes with marvelous…

— Eliphas Levi