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Color... thinks by itself, independently of the object it clothes.
Charles Baudelaire
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Charles Baudelaire
Age: 46 †
Born: 1821
Born: April 9
Died: 1867
Died: August 30
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Comme l'imagination a cre e le monde, elle le gouverne. Because imagination created the world, it governs it.
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Even when she walks one would believe that she dances.
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Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
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There are but three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the warrior and the poet. To know, to kill and to create. The rest of mankind may be taxed and drudged, they are born for the stable, that is to say, to practise what they call professions.
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Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
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An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom.
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Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible.
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How bittersweet it is, on winter's night, To listen, by the sputtering, smoking fire, As distant memories, through the fog-dimmed light, Rise, to the muffled chime of churchbell choir.
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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.
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This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy.
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The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
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I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.
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If a given combination of trees, mountains, water, and houses, say a landscape, is beautiful, it is not so by itself, but because of me, of my favor, of the idea or feeling I attach to it.
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Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.
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La' , tout n'est qu'ordre et beaute , Luxe, calme et volupte . There where all is order and beauty. Lush, calm and voluptuous.
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In the domain of painting and statuary, the present-day credo of the worldly wise, especially in France, is this: ... I believe that art is, and can only be, the exact reproduction of nature... An avenging God has heard the prayers of this multitude Daguerre was his messiah.
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The beautiful is always bizarre.
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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
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It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
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I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.
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