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
There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent. – Charles Baudelaire
I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me. – Charles Baudelaire