Charles Baudelaire

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

"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?"

"One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk."

"To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts."

"The beautiful is always bizarre."

"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."

"What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters."

"Inspiration comes of working every day."

"And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!"

"I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge."

"Always be a poet, even in prose."

"If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist."

"And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!"

"Always be a poet, even in prose."