More quotes by Charles Baudelaire

"If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist."
"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."
"I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge."
"Always be a poet, even in prose."