Quotes by Baudelaire, Charles

Any healthy man can go without food for two days -- but not without po >>

I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because no >>

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one ha >>

Quotations about Beauty

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the >>

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder >>

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matte >>

All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory -- of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.

Baudelaire, Charles