Charles Baudelaire Quotes

One of the things you do when you make a piece of art is you try to make the world you'd rather be in.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square.

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements.

But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not.

As long as you're true to you, you believe it and you make others believe it, then what you're doing is just art. If you give everybody a blank canvas and some paint, not everybody's picture is going to be exactly the same, but it's still art. I just do what I do.

Art is the triumph over chaos.

I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.

I never set out to make a movie that was everything to everybody; if that were the case, we could all just take a picture of a tree and agree that the tree is beautiful and move on with our lives. I wouldn't even need to show up.

All good art, to me, is uncertainty.

I think everything's fair in art and how you perceive a character.

I love when people have their own creative vision, when a person stands out and tries different things.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Art can go beyond certain boundaries or blindness that we would have without that.

People often say, 'You don't go to fashion shows? What kind of photographer are you? What the hell is the wrong with you, man?' But that's what I need in order to be who I am.

I'm a creative person, and I'm gonna be creative, so whoever's upset because of that, that's too bad.

I'm very fond of this phrase: 'Collage is not a refuge for the compositionally disabled.' If you put together the pieces in a really powerful way, I think you'll let a thousand discrepancies bloom.

But the great artists like Michelangelo and Blake and Tolstoi--like Christ whom Blake called an artist because he had one of the most creative imaginations that ever was on earth--do not want security, egoistic or materialistic. Why, it never occurs to them. "Be not anxious for the morrow," and "which of you being anxious can add one cubit to his stature?" So they dare to be idle, i.e. not to be pressed and duty-driven all the time. They dare to love people even when they are very bad, and they dare not to try and dominate others to show them what they must do for their own good.

Those who create beauty are also they who possess it.

Artistic vision is having the clarity to fall in love with what you see.

One can do good things without being very much of a harmonist or a colourist. It is sufficient to have a sense of art - and this sense is doubtless the horror of the bourgeois.

Normal people do not create art.

We have our brush and colors - paint Paradise and in we go.

Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal.

The scientist needs an artistically creative imagination.