Charles Baudelaire Quotes About Childhood

Quotes about: Childhood

• Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Childhood, Inspire, Genius

• Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Childhood, Genius

  Charles Baudelaire (1951). “My heart laid bare, and other prose writings”

• Genius is childhood recalled at will.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Childhood, Genius

• Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Mean, Men, Order

  Charles Baudelaire (1981). “Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists”, p.398, CUP Archive

• Genius is nothing more or less than childhood recovered by will, a childhood how equipped for self-expression with an adult's capacities.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Children, Self, Expression

• What I have always found most beautiful in the theatre, in my childhood, and still today, is lustre--a beautiful object, luminous, crystalline, complex, circular, symmetrical. However, I do not absolutely deny the value of dramatic literature. Only, I should like the actors to be mounted on high pattens, to wear masks more expressive than the human face, and to speak through megaphones.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beautiful, Childhood, Theatre

  Charles Baudelaire (1919). “Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry”

• A child sees everything in a sense of newness - he is always drunk. Genius is nothing but childhood re-attained at will.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Children, Drunk, Childhood

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