And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously,... - Charles Baudelaire

"The beautiful is always bizarre."

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

"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."

"Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?"

"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."