baudelaire Quotes
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“There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.”
- Charles Baudelaire
“This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.”
- Charles Baudelaire
“The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.”
- Charles Baudelaire
“I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.”
- Charles Baudelaire
“A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.”
- Charles Baudelaire
“Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!”
- Charles Baudelaire
“What is art? Prostitution.”
- 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.”
- Charles Baudelaire
“Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate good is always the product of an art.”
- Charles Baudelaire
“The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.”
- Charles Baudelaire