The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated. – Charles Baudelaire
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? – Charles Baudelaire

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated. – Charles Baudelaire
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? – Charles Baudelaire
True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin. – Charles Baudelaire
There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start. – Charles Baudelaire
My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mothers voice and smile. – Jennifer Garner