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. Charles Baudelaire on art
A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else. Charles Baudelaire on art
Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate good is always the product of an art. Charles Baudelaire on art
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. Charles Baudelaire on art
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? Charles Baudelaire on art
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 on art
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born. Charles Baudelaire on art
Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable. Charles Baudelaire on art
Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction. Charles Baudelaire on beauty
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy. Charles Baudelaire on beauty
An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion. Charles Baudelaire on beauty
It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton. Charles Baudelaire on beauty
Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty! Charles Baudelaire on 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. Charles Baudelaire on beauty
There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness. Charles Baudelaire on beauty
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated. Charles Baudelaire on beauty
Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste. Charles Baudelaire on beauty
Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them. Charles Baudelaire on best