More Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination.
Let us beware of common folk, common sense, sentiment, inspiration, and the obvious.
No task is a long one but the task on which one dare not start. It becomes a nightmare.
As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
I can barely conceive a type of beauty in which there is no melancholy.
Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.
Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?
To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.