All CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Quotes about “Pleasure”

“I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.”
“An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.”
“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.”
“I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.”
“Poetry has no goal other than itself; it can have no other, and no poem will be so great, so noble, so truly worthy of the name of poem, than one written uniquely for the pleasure of writing a poem.”
“La, tout nâ€™est quâ€™ordre et beautÃ© Luxe, calme et voluptÃ© There, there is nothing else but grace and measure, Richness, quietness, and pleasure.”
“My concern today is with the painting of manners of the present. The past is interesting not only by reason of the beauty which could be distilled from it by those artists for whom it was the present, but also precisely because it is the past, for its historical value. It is the same with the present. The pleasure which we derive from the representation of the present is due not only to the beauty with which it can be invested, but also to its essential quality of being present”
“The taste for pleasure attaches us to the present. The concern with our salvation leaves us hanging on the future.”
“It is the pleasure of astonishing others, and the proud satisfaction of never being astonished by them.”

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