Art Quote by Charles Baudelaire

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

— Charles Baudelaire

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

— Charles Baudelaire

“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

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

— Donna Tartt

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

— Dean Rader

“There is beauty in the midst of tragedy. As if beauty were condensing in the heart of ugliness. It's very strange.”

— Hélène Berr

“And what is beauty?” “Terror.”

— Donna Tartt

“Beauty is sometimes hidden under a veil of tragedy.”

— Karen Amanda Hooper

“Beauty is terror.”

— Donna Tartt

“For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Fight for the beauty in your life”

— M.J. Abraham

“Beauty is a nonviolent experience of near death, a warning that one is fragile, like everything else in the universe.”

— Timothy Morton