A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else. – Charles Baudelaire
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? – Charles Baudelaire

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else. – Charles Baudelaire
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? – Charles Baudelaire
France is not poetic she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic. – Charles Baudelaire
The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it. – Charles Baudelaire