Quotes by Baudelaire, Charles

What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of givi >>

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else. >>

The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the >>

Quotations about Symbols

Every sign is subject to the criteria of ideological evaluation. The d >>

The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things d >>

There isn't any symbolism. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old m >>

The whole visible universe is but a storehouse of images and signs to which the imagination will give a relative place and value; it is a sort of pasture which the imagination must digest and transform.

Baudelaire, Charles