Charles Baudelaire Quotes About Art

Quotes about: Art

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  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

  Art, Mean, Color

  Charles Baudelaire (1995). “The Painters of Modern Life”, Phaidon Incorporated Limited

• The beautiful is always bizarre.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beautiful, Art, Creativity

  Charles Baudelaire (2015). “Selected Poems from Les Fleurs du Mal”, p.194, Arc Publications

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

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Evil, Effort

• In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Men, Order

• A work of art should be like a well-planned crime.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Crime, Should

• The will to work must dominate, for art is long and time is brief.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Time, Art, Work

  Charles Baudelaire (1991). “The Flowers of Evil and Paris Spleen: Poems”, Boa Editions

• Evil is done without effort, naturally, it's destiny; good is always the product of skill.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Destiny, Evil

  "Le peintre de la vie moderne". Book by Charles Baudelaire. Chapter 11, 1863.

• 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.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Elements, Half

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

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Passion, Art Is

• It is the greatest art of the devil to convince us he does not exist.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Convince Us, Evil

• The more a man cultivates the arts the less he fornicates. A more and more apparent cleavage occurs between the spirit and the brute.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Men, Spirit

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.97, Courier Corporation

• What is art? Prostitution.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Sarcastic, Art, Prostitution

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.31, Courier Corporation

• 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.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Photography, Art, Real

  1859 'Salon of 1859', section 2, in Curiosites Esthetiques (1868).

• There can be no progress-real, moral prgress-except in the individual and by the individual himself.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Philosophy, Real

• 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

  Inspiring, Art, Dual Nature

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

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Fleeting, Half

  Charles Baudelaire (1981). “Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists”, p.403, CUP Archive

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

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Literature, Imitating Others

  Charles Baudelaire (1981). “Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists”, p.428, CUP Archive

• ...an industry which can furnish results identical to nature must be the absolute in art.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Results, Identical

• 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.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Education, Art, Children

• Blessed art Thou, Lord, who giveth suffering As a divine remedy for our impurities.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Blessed, Suffering

• It is one of the prodigious privileges of art that the horrific, artistically expressed, becomes beauty, and that sorrow, given rhythm and cadence, fills the spirit with a calm joy.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beauty, Art, Joy

• 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.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Cheer, Mind

  Charles Baudelaire, Jonathan Mayne (1981). “Art in Paris 1845-1862: salons and other exhibitions”

• In art, there is one thing which does not receive sufficient attention. The element which is left to the human will is not nearly so large as people think.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Thinking, People

• This industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Photography, Art, Enemy

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

  Charles Baudelaire

  Art, Criticism, Born

  Charles Baudelaire, Jonathan Mayne (1981). “Art in Paris 1845-1862: salons and other exhibitions”

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