Charles Baudelaire Quotes - Page 15

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• It is regrettable that, among the Rights of Man, the right of contradicting oneself has been forgotten.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Regret, Men, Rights

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• By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Knowledge, Men, Primitive Man

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• A Dandy does nothing.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Doe, Dandy, Idleness

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.74, Courier Corporation

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• A study of the Great Malady; horror of home.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Home, Study, Horror

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.81, Courier Corporation

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• In the domain of painting and statuary, the present-day credo of the worldly wise, especially in France, is this: ... I believe that art is, and can only be, the exact reproduction of nature... An avenging God has heard the prayers of this multitude; Daguerre was his messiah.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Wise, Art, Prayer

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• I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Music, Cat, Glasses

  Charles Baudelaire (1919). “The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire”

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• If a given combination of trees, mountains, water, and houses, say a landscape, is beautiful, it is not so by itself, but because of me, of my favor, of the idea or feeling I attach to it.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beautiful, Ideas, Water

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