573 Quotes by Charles Baudelaire

The act of love strongly resembles torture or surgery.

How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.

The dandy should aspire to be uninterruptedly sublime. He should live and sleep in front of a mirror.

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.

I am a cemetery abhorred by the moon, In which long worms crawl like remorse.

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Strangeness is an ingredient necessary in beauty.

Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place.

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