Charles Baudelaire Quotes

Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.
Charles Baudelaire

Art, Half, Changing

Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.
Charles Baudelaire

Art, Half, Eternal

Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.
Charles Baudelaire

Time, Stamp, Impresses

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, Sad, Long

Progress, this great heresy of decay.
Charles Baudelaire

Great, Progress, Decay

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.
Charles Baudelaire

Life, Rich, Though

The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.
Charles Baudelaire

Life, Family, Women

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
Charles Baudelaire

Beauty, Before, Study

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
Charles Baudelaire

Beauty, Happiness, Ways

This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
Charles Baudelaire

Life, Change, Desire

To be a great man and a saint for oneself, that is the only important thing.
Charles Baudelaire

Great, Important, Oneself

To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
Charles Baudelaire

Lonely, Heart, Drum

What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.
Charles Baudelaire

Bad, Giving, Pleasure

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Poet

Born: April 9, 1821

Died: August 31, 1867

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