Quotes by Charles Baudelaire

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally goodness is always the product of some art.

What is art? Prostitution.

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.

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

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate good is always the product of an art.

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

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.

It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.

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