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
art aspiration available expressed means modern towards word
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.
art evil good product
Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art
art modernity signifies
Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.
sarcastic art prostitution
What is art? Prostitution.
photography art real
If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely thanks to the natural support it will find in the stupidity of the multitude. It must return to its real task, which is to be the servant of the sciences and the arts, but the very humble servant, like printing and shorthand which have neither created nor supplanted literature.
art long art-is
The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief.
art convince-us devil
It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.
art cheer mind
Art is an infinitely precious good, a draught both refreshing and cheering which restores the stomach and the mind to the natural equilibrium of the ideal.
photography art believe
Since photography gives us every guarantee of exactitude that we could desire (they really believe that, the mad fools !), then photography and art are the same thing.
artist history dueling
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
art literature imitating-others
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
art criticism born
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
art fleeting half
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
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.