Quote

Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible.

Charles Baudelaire

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Charles Baudelaire
Age: 46 †
Born: 1821
Born: April 9
Died: 1867
Died: August 30
Art Critic
Author
Essayist
Literary Critic
Poet
Translator
Writer
Paris
France
Baudelaire
Charles Pierre Baudelaire-Dufaÿs
Charles Pierre Baudelaire
Passion
Possible
Love
Coldly
Passionately
Clearly
Express
Determined

More quotes by Charles Baudelaire

Image
That in all times, mediocrity has dominated, that is indubitable but that it reigns more than ever, that it is becoming absolutely triumphant and inhibiting, this is what is as true as it is distressing.
Charles Baudelaire
Image
Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject, nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling.
Charles Baudelaire
Image
I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.
Charles Baudelaire
Image
The form of a town changes more swiftly alas! Than the heart of a mortal.
Charles Baudelaire
Image
Love is a taste for prostitution. In fact, there is no noble pleasure that cannot be reduced to Prostitution.
Charles Baudelaire
Image
To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
Charles Baudelaire
Image
Oh, Creator! Can monsters exist in the sight of him who alone knows how they were invented, how they invented themselves, and how they might not have invented themselves?
Charles Baudelaire
Image
Always be a poet, even in prose.
Charles Baudelaire
Image
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
Charles Baudelaire
Image
Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves.
Charles Baudelaire
Image
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
Image
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
Charles Baudelaire
Image
Dancing can reveal all the mystery that music conceals.
Charles Baudelaire
Image
On the vaporization and the centralization of the Self. All is there.
Charles Baudelaire
Image
So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, be endlessly drunk.
Charles Baudelaire
Image
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
Charles Baudelaire
Image
A book is a garden, a party, a company by the way.
Charles Baudelaire
Image
An artist is only an artist on condition that he neglects no aspect of his dual nature. This dualism is the power of being oneself and someone else at one and the same time.
Charles Baudelaire
Image
Imagination is an almost divine faculty which, without recourse to any philosophical method, immediately perceives everything: the secret and intimate connections between things, correspondences and analogies.
Charles Baudelaire
Image
Color... thinks by itself, independently of the object it clothes.
Charles Baudelaire