Charles Baudelaire - Beauty Quotes

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These beings have no other status, but that of cultivating the idea of beauty in their own persons, of satisfying their passions, of feeling and thinking.... Contrary to what many thoughtless people seem to believe, dandyism is not even an excessive delight in clothes and material elegance. For the perfect dandy, these things are no more than the symbol of the aristocratic superiority of his mind.

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Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.

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That which is not slightly distorted lacks sensible appeal; from which it follows that irregularity – that is to say, the unexpected, surprise and astonishment, are a essential part and characteristic of beauty.

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There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

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Go then, a starveling girl With no perfume or pearls, Only your nudity O my beauty!

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Everything there is simply order and beauty, luxury, peace and sensual indulgence.

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The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist shrieks with terror before being overcome.

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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.

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It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.

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All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of an ideal, the desire for which constantly teases the unsatisfied human mind.

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The idea of beauty which man creates for himself imprints itself on his whole attire, crumples or stiffens his dress, rounds off or squares his gesture, and in the long run even ends by subtly penetrating the very features of his face. Man ends by looking like his ideal self. These engravings can be translated either into beauty or ugliness; in one direction, they become caricatures, in the other, antique statues.

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La', tout n'est qu'ordre et beaute, Luxe, calme et volupte. There where all is order and beauty. Lush, calm and voluptuous.

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