Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what... - Charles Baudelaire

"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."

"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."

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

"The beautiful is always bizarre."

"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."