I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire

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If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it...

If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it...

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always...

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always...

Nothing can be done except little by little.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies...

I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies...

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

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

Inspiration comes of working every day.

Inspiration comes of working every day.

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

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

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time,...

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time,...

Everything for me becomes allegory.

Everything for me becomes allegory.

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

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

Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical...

Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical...

Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it...

Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it...

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you...

There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you...

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

But a dandy can never be a vulgar man.

But a dandy can never be a vulgar man.

As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of...

As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of...

France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among...

France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among...

Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and...

Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and...

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to...

The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to...

How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But...

How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But...