Charles Baudelaire - Work Quotes

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One must work, if not from taste then at least from despair. For, to reduce everything to a single truth: work is less boring than pleasure.

Charles Baudelaire

Belief in progress is a doctrine of idlers and Belgians. It is the individual relying upon his neighbours to do his work.

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We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

Charles Baudelaire

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. As it turns out, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

Charles Baudelaire

As a remedy against all ills - poverty, sickness, and melancholy - only one thing is absolutely necessary: a liking for work

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The more one works, the better one works, and the more one wants to work. The more one produces, the more fertile one grows.

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As for techniques and processes, as seen in the works themselves, neither public nor artists will find anything about them here. Those things are learned in the studio and the public is interested only in the results.

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