Charles Baudelaire Quotes

Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.

I like the thought that what we are to do on this earth is embellish it for its greater beauty, so that oncoming generations can look back to the shapes we leave here and get the same thrill that I get in looking back at theirs - at the Parthenon, at Chartres Cathedral.

Beauty can come in strange forms.

What makes people the world over stand in line for Van Gogh is not that they will see beautiful pictures but that in an indefinable way they will come away feeling better human beings. And that is exactly what Van Gogh hoped for.

What is beautiful enchants me. I mean not just physical beauty but a wider concept of beauty. There is beauty in poetry and in great musical or singing performances. There is beauty everywhere if you can just see it.

I believe that true art is universal in its appeal.

In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.

I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.

Art is everywhere, and everywhere is art.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

It's great, I guess, when your paintings are hanging up in a museum.

I never had the dream to be a great designer. My focus was just to do beautiful things.

Art evokes emotion. It doesn't have to be a thing of beauty.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

Never has there been a close study of how necessary to a man are the experiences which we clumsily call aesthetic

I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.

When I see beautiful clothes, I want to keep them, preserve them... Clothes, like architecture and art, reflect an era.

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavour. The beauty endures. A work of art lives...through the generations and centuries.

Beautiful jewelry, a beautiful room - that's what museums are - a beautiful painting, a beautiful face, it makes you feel good to look at, and that's a beautiful thing.

Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.

A great painting or symphony or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry of affirmation to the power of Creation behind the Universe.

Alas, the transports beauty can inspire!

To be full of joy when looking at an oeuvre is not a little thing.

It is the search for beauty...That is what it is. We find ourselves on this earth--gods and men--and we know that it is beautiful. That is one of the few things we understand--beauty; because it is there, in the world, and we can see it all about us. We want beauty. It requires our love. It just does.