Author: Charles Baudelaire

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Progress, this great heresy of decay.

Progress, this great heresy of decay.

- Charles Baudelaire

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

- Charles Baudelaire

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

- 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

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

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

- 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

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

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

- 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

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

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