I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my ple... - Charles Baudelaire

"The beautiful is always bizarre."

"A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors."

"Always be a poet, even in prose."

"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."

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