Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.


Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists (ed. CUP Archive, 1981) - ISBN: 9780521282871

Charles Baudelaire Quotes

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.

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.