Charles BaudelaireThinkers

Accomplishment is never easy. Nothing can be done except little by little.

An Artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

An Artist is one who is only an artist on condition that he neglects no aspect of his dual nature: That he is oneself and someone else at one and the same time.

Authority is adored by 'the people'.

The Beautiful is always bizarre.

Biography is met with the immense appetite of readers because of the genre's deep-seated sense of equality.

The Book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

The Cat is disliked by the rabble because it is beautiful... it suggests ideas of luxury, cleanliness, voluptuous pleasures.

The Cat often gazes incuriously at nothing, like the great sphinxes lounging through eternity in noble attitudes upon the desert sand.

The Child is always intoxicated. A child sees everything in a sense of newness he is always drunk. Genius is nothing but childhood re-attained at will.