“I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.”
— Charles Baudelaire
Author: Charles Baudelaire
Category: nature
Tags: nature, Charles Baudelaire
“Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?”
— Charles Baudelaire
Author: Charles Baudelaire
Category: nature
Tags: nature, Charles Baudelaire
“I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.”
— Charles Baudelaire
Author: Charles Baudelaire
Category: love
Tags: love, Charles Baudelaire
“The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.”
— Charles Baudelaire
Author: Charles Baudelaire
Category: women
Tags: women, Charles Baudelaire
“Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.”
— Charles Baudelaire
Author: Charles Baudelaire
Category: best
Tags: best, Charles Baudelaire
“It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.”
— Charles Baudelaire
Author: Charles Baudelaire
Category: poetry
Tags: poetry, Charles Baudelaire
“The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.”
— Charles Baudelaire
Author: Charles Baudelaire
Category: poetry
Tags: poetry, Charles Baudelaire
“It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.”
— Charles Baudelaire
Author: Charles Baudelaire
Category: beauty
Tags: beauty, Charles Baudelaire
“This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.”
— Charles Baudelaire
Author: Charles Baudelaire
Category: change
Tags: change, Charles Baudelaire
“An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.”
— Charles Baudelaire
Author: Charles Baudelaire
Category: beauty
Tags: beauty, Charles Baudelaire
“Music fathoms the sky.”
— Charles Baudelaire
Author: Charles Baudelaire
Category: music
Tags: music, Charles Baudelaire