Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire
Charles Pierre Baudelaire; April 9, 1821 – August 31, 1867) was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist, art critic, and pioneering translator of Edgar Allan Poe...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth9 April 1821
CityParis, France
CountryFrance
character portraiture gestures
Nothing in a portrait is a matter of indifference. Gesture, grimace, clothing, decor even - all must combine to realize a character.
artist technique methodology
As for techniques and processes, as seen in the works themselves, neither public nor artists will find anything about them here. Those things are learned in the studio and the public is interested only in the results.
drawing mind draftsman
All good and genuine draftsmen draw according to the picture inscribed in their minds, and not according to nature.
education art children
The artist is today and has been for many years, despite his absence of merit, simply a spoiled child. So many honors, so much money bestowed on men without souls and without education.
art thinking people
In art, there is one thing which does not receive sufficient attention. The element which is left to the human will is not nearly so large as people think.
pain ordinary alive
What is it that brings on these moods of yours? Nothing mysterious: the ordinary pain of being alive.
flower evil come-up
Evil comes up softly like a flower.
photography art stupidity
If photography is allowed to supplement art in some of its functions, it will soon have supplanted or corrupted it altogether, thanks to the stupidity of the multitude which is its natural ally.
Where ever I am not is the place where I am myself.
love taste facts
Love is a taste for prostitution. In fact, there is no noble pleasure that cannot be reduced to Prostitution.
strong cat pride
Both ardent lovers and austere scholars, when once they come to the years of discretion, love cats, so strong and gentle, the pride of the household, who like them are sensitive to the cold, and sedentary.
spiritual art mean
Torture, as the art of discovering the truth, is barbaric nonsense; it is the application of a material means to a spiritual end.
seeds knows
I throw fresh seeds out. Who knows what survives?
men hideous idleness
Being a useful man has always seemed to me to be something truly hideous.