Charles Baudelaire Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.”

“It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.”

“I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.”

“Music fathoms the sky.”

“This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.”

“We are all born marked for evil.”

“Everything for me becomes allegory.”

“I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.”

“Modernity is the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, which make up one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element, which is constantly changing, must not be despised or neglected.”

“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.”