Art Quote by Charles Baudelaire

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

— Charles Baudelaire

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

— Charles Baudelaire

Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power, namely power…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Death is the mother of Beauty. And what is Beauty? Terror.”

— Donna Tartt

Art is the essence of beauty. The artist, a mute that practiced crying until he managed to shout free of dissonance.

— Mariana Fulger

“She told him he saw the world with the eye of an artist and so could isolate beauty from the terror of existence.”

— Brooks Malcolm

“What is terror / but the disappearance of beauty?”

— Dean Rader

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Could beauty be caught and hurt they had done her to death with their sneers in ages and ages past, could beauty be sacrificed…

— H.D

Death is the mother of beauty,” said Henry. “And what is beauty?” “Terror.

— Donna Tartt

“And what is beauty?” “Terror.”

— Donna Tartt

“Beauty by mistake' -- the final phase in the history of beauty.”

— milan kundera