573 Quotes by Charles Baudelaire

Perfumes, colours and sounds echo one another.

In art, there is one thing which does not receive sufficient attention. The element which is left to the human will is not nearly so large as people think.

When it meows, one scarcely hears it... It has not the need of words to speak the lengthiest phraseologies.

J'ai plus de souvenirs que si j'avais mille ans. IhavemorememoriesthanifIwereonethousandyearsold.

In my mind it strolls, as well as in my apartment. A cat, strong, sweet and delightful..

What is it that brings on these moods of yours? Nothing mysterious: the ordinary pain of being alive.

From Satan or from God, what matter? Angel or Siren, What matter, if you make - fairy with velvet eyes, Rhythm, perfume, light, o my only queen - The universe less hideous, each moment less strained?

There is a certain cowardice, a certain weakness, rather, among respectable folk. Only brigands are convinced-of what? That they must succeed. And so they do succeed.

Finer than any sand are dusts of gold that gleam, Vague starpoints, in the mystic iris of their eyes.