Charles Baudelaire

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To…

Nature… is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest…

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent it is one half of art, the…

The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the…

Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it…

Even if it were proven that God didn’t exist, Religion would still be Saintly and…

It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of…

Music fathoms the sky…

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

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

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art – that is, intimacy, spirituality, color…

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation…

Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty…

I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies…

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive…