Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the cont... -Charles Baudelaire

Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.

Charles Baudelaire , Poet
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Charles Baudelaire was a French poet, essayist, and art critic. He is best known for his collection of poems titled "Les Fleurs du Mal" (The Flowers of Evil), which explores themes of beauty, decadence, and the human condition. Baudelaire's contributions to French literature and his influence on Symbolism continue to be celebrated and studied by scholars and poetry enthusiasts.

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Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation....
Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the in...
Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them....
Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has...
It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you ...
It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish....
The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry wit...
Always be a poet, even in prose....
There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened....
Music fathoms the sky....

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I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher could more wish to be than a good dancer. For the dance is his ideal, also his fine art, finally also t...
Art is for everybody....
It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully....
I am a poor man and of little worth, who is laboring in that art that God has given me in order to extend my life as long as possible....
Art? That's a man's name....
Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day....
Extreme complication is contrary to art....
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable....
The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head a...
When I was making my debut as an artist, I felt that it was very important that I try to combine the background of my own culture, my people, and the ...