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All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory - of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is

All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory - of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.

Charles Baudelaire
Beauty, Justice, Doe

For me, Romanticism is the most recent and the most current expression of beauty.

Charles Baudelaire
Beauty, Expression, Currents

It is this admirable and immortal instinct for beauty which causes us to regard the earth and its spectacles as a glimpse, a correspondence of the beyond.

Charles Baudelaire
Beauty, Causes, Glimpse

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

Charles Baudelaire
Happiness, Beauty, Way
Charles Baudelaire (1964). “Baudelaire as a literary critic”, Pennsylvania State Univ Pr

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

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

Charles Baudelaire
Beauty, Apathy, Satisfaction

The idea which man forms of beauty imprints itself throughout his attire, rumples or stiffens his garments, rounds off or aligns his gestures, and, finally, even subtly penetrates the features of his face.

Charles Baudelaire
Beauty, Fashion, Men

Where one should see only what is beautiful, our public looks only for what is true.

Charles Baudelaire
Beauty, Beautiful, Looks

Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.

Charles Baudelaire
Beauty, Ambition, Goal

I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.

Charles Baudelaire
Beauty, Monsters, Useless

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.

Charles Baudelaire
Beauty, Time, Aquariums
Charles Baudelaire (1981). “Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists”, p.391, CUP Archive

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