Charles Baudelaire Quotes

Beauty doesn't have to be in accord with prefabricated concepts of 'pretty.'

Most reckless things are beautiful in some way, and recklessness is what makes experimental art beautiful, just as religions are beautiful because of the strong possibilities that they are founded on nothing.

I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too.

You do this because you like it, you think what you're making is beautiful. And if you think it's beautiful, maybe they think it's beautiful.

Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.

Beauty can come in strange forms.

Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.

I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.

There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful.

Your looks are laughable, unphotographable, yet you're my favorite work of art. Is your figure less than Greek, is your mouth a little weak? When you open it to speak, are you smart?

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want.

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.

The ideal woman which is in every man's mind is evoked by a word or phrase or the shape of her wrist, her hand. The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement. Remember, all Tolstoy ever said to describe Anna Karenina was that she was beautiful and could see in the dark like a cat. Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.

A beautiful dress can be as exciting as a poem.

None of us understand what we're doing, but we do beautiful things anyway.

Filling a space in a beautiful way - that is what art means to me.

When I meet a new person, something has to be a little off for me to consider them beautiful. It could be crooked teeth, or veins in their skin that are a little too visible, or a really dramatic lazy eye. The first guy I ever kissed had a water head.

I don't consider my own clothing to be outrageous. The truth is that people just don't have the same references that I do. To me it's very beautiful and it's art, and to them it's outrageous and crazy.

Beauty is whatever anyone thinks is beautiful.

Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.

Liking is not always the child of beauty; but whatsoever is liked, to the liker is beautiful.

The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very beautiful. I've also stood in front of those same paintings with people who've said, 'let's get on to the Botticellis as soon as possible.' I have lingered, of course.

Beauty is a mystery. You can neither eat it nor make flannel out of it.

Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is made beautiful by this embrace.

Art is - representing the beautiful. There must be Art in everything.