More quotes by Charles Baudelaire

"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."
"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."
"And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!"
"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."
"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."