What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense. – Charles Baudelaire
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? – Charles Baudelaire

What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense. – Charles Baudelaire
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? – Charles Baudelaire
The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute. – Charles Baudelaire
I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws. – Charles Baudelaire