Charles Baudelaire Quotes

If you look after truth and goodness, beauty looks after herself.

I didn't care about truth; I cared about beauty. It took me many years--it took the experience of lived time--to realize that they really are the same thing.

I love pretty things; and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty. It makes me feel so sorrowful—just as I feel when I look at any ugly thing. I pity it because it isn't beautiful.

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

I believe that politics takes a much different set of skills than science. Science is about getting to the truth. Politics is about what people think and how they react.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

I believe that what we call beautiful is generally a by-product.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.

Reality only reveals itself when it is illuminated by a ray of poetry.

I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.

Art is truth.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty

The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.

Important lessons: look carefully; record what you see. Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful.

It is easier to be mistaken about the true than the beautiful.

Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?

The line between the reality that is photographed because it seems beautiful to us and the reality that seems beautiful because it has been photographed is very narrow.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.

When an artist paints a picture he does not want you to consider his personality as represented in that picture - he wants you to look at the beauty of that picture. No one cares who has painted the picture as long as it is beautiful.

I am inspired by so much. I am inspired by women, of course - beautiful women. I am also inspired by not so beautiful things in the world.

Wittgenstein once wrote that when the eye sees something beautiful, the hand wants to draw it. I wish I could draw you.

Fashion: a beautiful thing that becomes ugly. Art: an ugly thing that becomes beautiful.