Top 62 Quotes by Charles Baudelaire

A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.

I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.

God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.

If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.

It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.

The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.