“The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries out in terror before being vanquished.”
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Famous Charles Baudelaire Quotes
Source: Twenty Prose Poems
Source: Les Fleurs Du Mal
“I can barely conceive a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.”
Source: Selected writings on art and literature
“For me, Romanticism is the most recent and the most current expression of beauty.”
“Where one should see only what is beautiful, our public looks only for what is true.”
“There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.”
Source: Baudelaire as a literary critic
Source: Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists
