72 Quotations by Charles Baudelaire
- 21. I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder o ...
- 22. I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me ...
- 23. I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and to ...
- 24. I have to confess that I had gambled on my soul and lost it with heroic insouciance and lightness of ...
- 25. I love (Richard) Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a windo ...
- 26. I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and tryi ...
- 27. If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corr ...
- 28. In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppresse ...
- 29. In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do it.
- 30. Inspiration comes of working every day.
- 31. It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each othe ...
- 32. It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
- 33. It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work ...
- 34. It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.
- 35. It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of t ...
- 36. Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by the desire of changing his bed. One would ...
- 37. Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the ...
- 38. Nature is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
- 39. Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.
- 40. Nothing can be done except little by little.
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