La' , tout n'est qu'ordre et beaute , Luxe, calme et volupte . There where all is order and beauty. Lush, calm and voluptuous. Charles Baudelaire More Quotes by Charles Baudelaire More Quotes From Charles Baudelaire A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle. Charles Baudelaire marriage cute funny The beautiful is always bizarre. Charles Baudelaire creativity beautiful art There is a word, in a verb, something sacred which forbids us from using it recklessly. To handle a language cunningly is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery. Charles Baudelaire sorcery verbs practice Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty. Charles Baudelaire condiments strangeness indispensable Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction. Charles Baudelaire apathy satisfaction beauty 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 men order art Color... thinks by itself, independently of the object it clothes. Charles Baudelaire clothes color thinking I am a cemetery by the moon unblessed. Charles Baudelaire cemetery moon If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force. Charles Baudelaire moral objectivity literature It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. Charles Baudelaire amusing despair boring The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it. Charles Baudelaire atmosphere cities life Everything that gives pleasure has its reason. To scorn the mobs of those who go astray is not the means to bring them around. Charles Baudelaire reason giving mean A silent mouth is sweet to hear. Charles Baudelaire silent mouths sweet The vices of man, as full of horror as one might suppose them to be, contain the proof (if in nothing else but their infinitely expandable nature) of his taste for the infinite; only, it is a taste that often takes a wrong turn. Charles Baudelaire infinity vices men Genius is childhood recalled at will. Charles Baudelaire childhood genius All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of an ideal, the desire for which constantly teases the unsatisfied human mind. Charles Baudelaire fashion mind desire Forest, I fear you! In my ruined heart your roaring wakens the same agony as in cathedrals when the organ moans and from the depths I hear that I am damned. Charles Baudelaire agony depth heart A child sees everything in a sense of newness - he is always drunk. Genius is nothing but childhood re-attained at will. Charles Baudelaire childhood drunk children The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight. Charles Baudelaire unique men lying Photographers, you will never become artists. All you are is mere copiers. Charles Baudelaire copiers photographer artist
