573 Quotes by Charles Baudelaire

Everything for me becomes allegory

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

La, tout n’est qu’ordre et beauté Luxe, calme et volupté There, there is nothing else but grace and measure, Richness, quietness, and pleasure.

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.

The taste for pleasure attaches us to the present. The concern with our salvation leaves us hanging on the future.

Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.

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.

There are in every man, at every hour, two simultaneous postulations, one towards God, the other towards Satan

In our corruption we perceive beauties unrevealed to ancient times.