There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness. – Charles Baudelaire
I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust. – Charles Baudelaire
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
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? – Charles Baudelaire