I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy. – Charles Baudelaire
Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams. – Charles Baudelaire

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy. – Charles Baudelaire
Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams. – Charles Baudelaire
The whole visible universe is but a storehouse of images and signs to which the imagination will give a relative place and value; it is a sort of pasture which the imagination must digest and transform. – Charles Baudelaire
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? – Charles Baudelaire