There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
Author: Charles Baudelaire
The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due not only to the beauty it can be clothed in but also to its essential quality of being the present.
The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due not only to the beauty it can be clothed in but also to its essential quality of being the present.
Whether you come from heaven or hell what does it matter O Beauty!
Whether you come from heaven or hell what does it matter O Beauty!
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 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.
It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan as portrayed by Milton.
It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan as portrayed by Milton.
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
Modernity signifies the transitory the fugitive the contingent the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.
Modernity signifies the transitory the fugitive the contingent the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
Modernity is the transitory the fugitive the contingent which make up one half of art the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element which is constantly changing must not be despised or neglected.
Modernity is the transitory the fugitive the contingent which make up one half of art the other being the eternal and the immutable. This transitory fugitive element which is constantly changing must not be despised or neglected.
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?
Modernity is the transient the fleeting the contingent it is one half of art the other being the eternal and the immovable.
Modernity is the transient the fleeting the contingent it is one half of art the other being the eternal and the immovable.