Quote by Charles Baudelaire
To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism sh

To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons. – Charles Baudelaire

Other quotes by 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

Category:
Poetry
Read Quote

As a remedy against all ills; poverty, sickness, and melancholy only one thing is absolutely necessary; a liking for work. – Charles Baudelaire

Category:
Health
Read Quote

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

Category:
Art
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Criticism
category

Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else. – Leo Aikman

Category:
Criticism

There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it ill behooves any of us,
To say anything about the rest of us. – Anon.

Category:
Criticism

Be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath. – Bible

Category:
Criticism

Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friends forehead. – Chinese Proverb

Category:
Criticism

Random Quotes

If youre that hypersensitive about color and dont have a sense of humor, dont marry out of your race. – Laura Schlessinger

Category:
Humor

Theater is far superior to film in poetry, in abstract poetry. – Julie Taymor

Category:
Poetry

When you are offended at any mans fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger. – Epictetus

Category:
Anger

There is little more powerful than when truth joins action. – Bryant H. McGill

Category:
Truth