Beauty Quote by Charles Baudelaire

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

— Charles Baudelaire

“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

“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

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.

— Charles Baudelaire

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

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

Amer savoir, celui qu'on tire du voyage! Bitter is the knowledge gained in travelling.

— Charles Baudelaire

“Car je cherche le vide, el le noir, el le nu!”

— Charles Baudelaire

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

— Charles Baudelaire

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

Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet.

— Charles Baudelaire

Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.

— Charles Baudelaire