Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.
CHARLES BAUDELAIREThat which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity – that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment, are a essential part and characteristic of beauty.
More Charles Baudelaire Quotes
-
-
The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE -
A silent mouth is sweet to hear.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE -
That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity – that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment, are a essential part and characteristic of beauty.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE -
Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE -
Drowsing, they take the noble attitude of a great sphinx, who, in a desert land, sleeps always, dreaming dreams that have no end.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE -
Man loves man so much that when he flees the city, it is still to seek the crowd, that is, to rebuild the city in the country.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE -
Through the Unknown, we’ll find the New
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE -
Everything that gives pleasure has its reason. To scorn the mobs of those who go astray is not the means to bring them around.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE -
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE -
The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE -
My soul travels on the smell of perfume like the souls of other men on music.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE -
Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE -
What is love? The need of coming out of one’s self.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE -
Comme l’imagination a cre e le monde, elle le gouverne. Because imagination created the world, it governs it.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE -
Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE