More quotes by Charles Baudelaire

"Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?"
"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."
"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."
"I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge."