Quotes by Baudelaire, Charles

Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses up >>

Any man who does not accept the conditions of human life sells his sou >>

The son will run away from the family not at eighteen but at twelve, e >>

Quotations about Photography

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the les >>

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the phot >>

The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis >>

If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely thanks to the natural support it will find in the stupidity of the multitude. It must return to its real task, which is to be the servant of the sciences and the arts, but the very humble servant, like printing and shorthand which have neither created nor supplanted literature.

Baudelaire, Charles