Charles Baudelaire Quotes About Genius

Quotes about: Genius

• 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

• A man who from the beginning has long been soaked in the languid atmosphere of a woman, the scent of her hands, her bosom, her knees, her hair, her lithe and flowing clothes,
  Sweet bath, suavely
  Scented with ointments,
  
  has acquired a delicacy of skin, a refinement of tone, a kind of androgyny without which the toughest and most virile of geniuses remains, when it comes to artistic perfection, an incomplete being.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Women, Hair, Hands

  "Les paradis artificiels". Book by Charles Baudelaire, 1860.

• 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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