"It is from the womb of art that criticism was born" — Charles-Pierre Baudelaire

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul

Source: The Spectator, no. 215 (1711)

The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese

Source: Alarms and Discursions, Cheese (1910)

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known

Source: The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Source: Walden (1854)

A little rebellion now and then is a good thing

Source: Letter to James Madison (Jan. 30, 1787)

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

Source: The Two Paths, lecture 2 (1859)

Charles-Pierre Baudelaire Quote