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In this horror of solitude, th...

In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

The devil's finest trick is to...

The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

...an industry which can furni...

...an industry which can furnish results identical to nature must be the absolute in art.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

Photographers, you will never ...

Photographers, you will never become artists. All you are is mere copiers.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

From that moment onwards, our ...

From that moment onwards, our loathsome society rushed, like Narcissus, to contemplate its trivial image on a metallic plate. A form of lunacy, an extraordinary fanaticism took hold of these new sun-worshippers.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

The photographic industry was ...

The photographic industry was the refuge of all the painters who couldn't make it, either because they had no talent or because they were too lazy to finish their studies. Hence this universal infatuation was not only characterized by blindness and stupidity, but also by vindictiveness.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

There can be no progress-real,...

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

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

The immense appetite we have f...

The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

One should always be drunk. Th...

One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

A book is a garden, an orchard...

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

The idea of beauty which man c...

The idea of beauty which man creates for himself imprints itself on his whole attire, crumples or stiffens his dress, rounds off or squares his gesture, and in the long run even ends by subtly penetrating the very features of his face. Man ends by looking like his ideal self. These engravings can be translated either into beauty or ugliness; in one direction, they become caricatures, in the other, antique statues.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

My concern today is with the p...

My concern today is with the painting of manners of the present. The past is interesting not only by reason of the beauty which could be distilled from it by those artists for whom it was the present, but also precisely because it is the past, for its historical value. It is the same with the present. The pleasure which we derive from the representation of the present is due not only to the beauty with which it can be invested, but also to its essential quality of being present

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

In our corruption we perceive ...

In our corruption we perceive beauties unrevealed to ancient times.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

In order not to feel time's ho...

In order not to feel time's horrid fardel bruise your shoulders, grinding you into the earth, get drunk and stay that way. On what? On wine, poetry, virtue, whatever. But get drunk!

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

Color... thinks by itself, ind...

Color... thinks by itself, independently of the object it clothes.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

Pure draughtsmen are philosoph...

Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

All good and genuine draftsmen...

All good and genuine draftsmen draw according to the picture inscribed in their minds, and not according to nature.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

I love the clouds... the cloud...

I love the clouds... the clouds that pass by... over there... over there... those lovely clouds!

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

As for techniques and processe...

As for techniques and processes, as seen in the works themselves, neither public nor artists will find anything about them here. Those things are learned in the studio and the public is interested only in the results.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

Nothing in a portrait is a mat...

Nothing in a portrait is a matter of indifference. Gesture, grimace, clothing, decor even - all must combine to realize a character.

Charles Baudelaire 461 quotes

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