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.


Selected writings on art and artists [of] Beaudelaire (ed. Penguin Books, 1972)

Charles Baudelaire Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...