Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Pierre Baudelaire; April 9, 1821 – August 31, 1867) was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth9 April 1821
CityParis, France
CountryFrance
wine drunk virtue
With wine, poetry, or virtue as you choose. But get drunk.
oasis boredom desert
An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom.
writing names goal
Poetry has no goal other than itself; it can have no other, and no poem will be so great, so noble, so truly worthy of the name of poem, than one written uniquely for the pleasure of writing a poem.
imagination world
Comme l'imagination a cre e le monde, elle le gouverne. Because imagination created the world, it governs it.
character portraiture gestures
Nothing in a portrait is a matter of indifference. Gesture, grimace, clothing, decor even - all must combine to realize a character.
love acts-of-love torture
The act of love strongly resembles torture or surgery.
artist technique methodology
As for techniques and processes, as seen in the works themselves, neither public nor artists will find anything about them here. Those things are learned in the studio and the public is interested only in the results.
love clouds lovely
I love the clouds... the clouds that pass by... over there... over there... those lovely clouds!
drawing mind draftsman
All good and genuine draftsmen draw according to the picture inscribed in their minds, and not according to nature.
epic philosopher poet
Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets.
knowledge men primitive-man
By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization.
people authority adore
The People adore authority.
work simple years
How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work, that disagreeable thing, is the only way of not suffering in life, or at all events, of suffering less.
education art children
The artist is today and has been for many years, despite his absence of merit, simply a spoiled child. So many honors, so much money bestowed on men without souls and without education.