Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter. -Charles Baudelaire Sad
Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry. -Charles Baudelaire Poetry
Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter. -Charles Baudelaire Religion
There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness. -Charles Baudelaire Happiness
Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine. -Charles Baudelaire Religion
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy. -Charles Baudelaire Beauty
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated. -Charles Baudelaire Beauty
Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction. -Charles Baudelaire Beauty
There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened. -Charles Baudelaire Space
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 Poetry
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 Beauty
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable. -Charles Baudelaire Art
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. -Charles Baudelaire Art
Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art. -Charles Baudelaire Art
It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish. -Charles Baudelaire Time
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 Music
