Charles Baudelaire – Page 4

Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected. – Charles Baudelaire

It is from the womb of art that criticism was born. – 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

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art – that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts. – Charles Baudelaire

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else. – Charles Baudelaire

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate good is always the product of an art. – Charles Baudelaire

What is art? Prostitution. – Charles Baudelaire

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally goodness is always the product of some art. – Charles Baudelaire

I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust. – Charles Baudelaire

In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love. – Charles Baudelaire

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. – Charles Baudelaire

I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws. – Charles Baudelaire

Any healthy man can go without food for two days — but not without poetry. – Charles Baudelaire

Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals. – Charles Baudelaire