All Charles Baudelaire Quotes
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
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God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.
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Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust.
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If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.
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To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.
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Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter.
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There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.
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It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.
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As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
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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.
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I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.
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Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.
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It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.
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