Charles Baudelaire

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of…

It is from the womb of art that criticism was born…

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish…

Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art…

Our religion is itself profoundly sad – a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because…

Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the…

The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover…

Any healthy man can go without food for two days – but not without poetry…

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate good is always…

The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And…

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense…