baudelaire Quotes

“Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally goodness is always the product of some art.”

“What is art? Prostitution.”

“To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.”

“A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.”

“Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate good is always the product of an art.”

“Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!”

“The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.”

“There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.”

“The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.”

“Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.”