“For me, Romanticism is the most recent and the most current expression of beauty.” Quote by Charles Baudelaire
“Where one should see only what is beautiful, our public looks only for what is true.” ShouldLooksBeautifulBeautyTrue Beauty Author:Charles Baudelaire
“In philosophical inquiry, the human spirit, imitating the movement of the stars, must follow a curve which brings it back to its point of departure. To conclude is to close a circle.” ThinkingHumansSpiritStarsMovementPhilosophicalCirclesThoughtfulInquiryCurvesHuman SpiritDepartureImitating Author:Charles Baudelaire
“By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization.” MenKnowledgeCivilizationRegionsCivilizedPrimitiveConfinedSpecializationPrimitive Man Author:Charles Baudelaire
“The artist is today and has been for many years, despite his absence of merit, simply a spoiled child. So many honors, so much money bestowed on men without souls and without education.” MenYearsChildrenHas BeensArtSoulTodayArtistEducationHonorAbsenceDespiteMeritMediocritySpoiledSpoiled Children Author:Charles Baudelaire
“I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed the climatic balance. Of course it has. There is no valid argument for denial.” IfsWould BeCoursesStuffGrowthChangedBalanceArgumentPopulationDenialAtmospherePopulation GrowthAstounded Author:David Attenborough
“It is one of the prodigious privileges of art that the horrific, artistically expressed, becomes beauty, and that sorrow, given rhythm and cadence, fills the spirit with a calm joy.” ArtJoySpiritArtistGivenBeautySorrowCalmPrivilegeRhythmHorrificCadenceProdigious Author:Charles Baudelaire
“Woman is natural, that is to say, abominable.” WomenNatureNatural Book:The Flowers of Evil Source: The Flowers of Evil
“Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet.” TermPoetSolitudeEqualCrowdsActiveMultitudes Author:Charles Baudelaire
“Love is a taste for prostitution. In fact, there is no noble pleasure that cannot be reduced to Prostitution.” LoveFactsLove IsPleasureTasteNobleProstitution Author:Charles Baudelaire
“Love is the natural occupation of the man of leisure.” MenLoveNaturalLove IsHe ManOccupationLeisureIdleness Author:Charles Baudelaire