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

"The beautiful is always bizarre."

"Inspiration comes of working every day."

"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."

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

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