Author: Charles Baudelaire

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

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

- Charles Baudelaire

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

- Charles Baudelaire

This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.

This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.

- Charles Baudelaire

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

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

- Charles Baudelaire

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

- Charles Baudelaire

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.

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

Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.

Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.

- Charles Baudelaire

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

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

- Charles Baudelaire

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

- Charles Baudelaire

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