Author: Charles Baudelaire

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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

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

- 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

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 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

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

- 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

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

- 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

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