Logo
Quote by Charles Baudelaire
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent it is one

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. – Charles Baudelaire

Other quotes by Charles Baudelaire

We all have the republican spirit in our veins, like syphilis in our bones. We are democratized and venerealized. – Charles Baudelaire

Category:
Government
Author
Charles Baudelaire
Read Quote

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction. – Charles Baudelaire

Category:
Beauty
Author
Charles Baudelaire
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Art
category

Good art provides people with a vocabulary about things they cant articulate. – Mos Def

Category:
Art

The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art. – Thomas Aquinas

Category:
Art

Art is for anyone. It just isnt for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and thats irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money. – Jerry Saltz

Category:
Art

The price of a work of art has nothing to do with what the work of art is, can do, or is worth on an existential, alchemical level. – Jerry Saltz

Category:
Art

Random Quotes

Buddhism has a very beautiful teaching that says the worst thing you can do to your soul is to tell someone their faith is wrong. – Ricky Martin

Category:
Faith

If one more journalist makes a cavalier statement about me and my band, I will personally or with my fans help, greet them at their home and discover just how much they believe in their freedom of speech. – Marilyn Manson

Category:
Freedom

And this administration and this House leadership have said, quote-unquote, they will stop at nothing to pass this health care bill. And now theyve gotten rid of me and it will pass. You connect the dots. – Eric Massa

Category:
Leadership

Theres a void of leadership in a lot of Washington. I think one of the reasons why theres so much angst across the country. – Rush Limbaugh

Category:
Leadership