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The beautiful is always bizarre.

The beautiful is always bizarre.

Charles Baudelaire
Beautiful, Art, Creativity
Charles Baudelaire (2015). “Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du Mal”, p.194, Arc Publications

A work of art should be like a well-planned crime.

Charles Baudelaire
Art, Crime, Should

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

Charles Baudelaire
Art, Evil, Effort

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
Art, Mean, Color
Charles Baudelaire (1995). “The Painters of Modern Life”, Phaidon Incorporated Limited

The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

Charles Baudelaire
Art, Men, Spirit
Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.97, Courier Corporation

The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief.

Charles Baudelaire
Time, Art, Work
Charles Baudelaire (1991). “The Flowers of Evil and Paris Spleen: Poems”, Boa Editions

An artist is only an artist on condition that he neglects no aspect of his dual nature. This dualism is the power of being oneself and someone else at one and the same time.

Charles Baudelaire
Inspiring, Art, Dual Nature

Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between things, correspondences and analogies.

Charles Baudelaire
Art, Philosophical, Imagination

Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end.

Charles Baudelaire
Spiritual, Art, Mean
Charles Baudelaire (1919). “Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry”

What is art? Prostitution.

Charles Baudelaire
Sarcastic, Art, Prostitution
Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.31, Courier Corporation

It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.

Charles Baudelaire
Art, Convince Us, Evil

Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.

Charles Baudelaire
Art, Elements, Half

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it's destiny; good is always the product of skill.

Charles Baudelaire
Art, Destiny, Evil
"Le peintre de la vie moderne". Book by Charles Baudelaire. Chapter 11, 1863.

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.

Charles Baudelaire
Beauty, Art, Joy

In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

Charles Baudelaire
Art, Men, Order

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.

Charles Baudelaire
Education, Art, Children

There can be no progress-real, moral prgress-except in the individual and by the individual himself.

Charles Baudelaire
Art, Philosophy, Real

Blessed art Thou, Lord, who giveth suffering As a divine remedy for our impurities.

Charles Baudelaire
Art, Blessed, Suffering

Since photography gives us every guarantee of exactitude that we could desire (they really believe that, the mad fools !), then photography and art are the same thing.

Charles Baudelaire
Photography, Art, Believe
Charles Baudelaire, Jonathan Mayne (1981). “Art in Paris 1845-1862: salons and other exhibitions”

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

Charles Baudelaire
Art, Literature, Imitating Others
Charles Baudelaire (1981). “Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists”, p.428, CUP Archive

Art is an infinitely precious good, a draught both refreshing and cheering which restores the stomach and the mind to the natural equilibrium of the ideal.

Charles Baudelaire
Art, Cheer, Mind
Charles Baudelaire, Jonathan Mayne (1981). “Art in Paris 1845-1862: salons and other exhibitions”

In art, there is one thing which does not receive sufficient attention. The element which is left to the human will is not nearly so large as people think.

Charles Baudelaire
Art, Thinking, People

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Charles Baudelaire
Art, Passion, Art Is

This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy.

Charles Baudelaire
Photography, Art, Enemy

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

Charles Baudelaire
Art, Fleeting, Half
Charles Baudelaire (1981). “Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists”, p.403, CUP Archive

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