Charles Baudelaire Beautiful Quotations

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely.

What I have always found most beautiful in the theatre, in my childhood, and still today, is lustre--a beautiful object, luminous, crystalline, complex, circular, symmetrical. However, I do not absolutely deny the value of dramatic literature. Only, I should like the actors to be mounted on high pattens, to wear masks more expressive than the human face, and to speak through megaphones.

The beautiful is always bizarre.

It is easy to understand why the rabble dislike cats. A cat is beautiful; it suggests ideas of luxury, cleanliness, voluptuous pleasures.

Where one should see only what is beautiful, our public looks only for what is true.

If a given combination of trees, mountains, water, and houses, say a landscape, is beautiful, it is not so by itself, but because of me, of my favor, of the idea or feeling I attach to it.

What do I care if you are good? Be beautiful! and be sad!

The son will run away from the family not at eighteen but at twelve, emancipated by his gluttonous precocity; he will fly not to seek heroic adventures, not to deliver a beautiful prisoner from a tower, not to immortalize a garret with sublime thoughts, but to found a business, to enrich himself and to compete with his infamous papa.

And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!