What did Charles Baudelaire mean by: If the word doesn’t exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn’t exist. - Charles Baudelaire Poet · France Copy
+ The old Paris is no more (the form of a city changes faster, alas! than a mortal’s heart). Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Charles Baudelaire, Cities, Heart, Paris, 0 - Charles Baudelaire Poet · France
+ All the visible universe is nothing but a shop of images and signs. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Charles Baudelaire, Shops, Universe, Visible, 0 - Charles Baudelaire Poet · France
+ A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Charles Baudelaire, Art, Passion, 0 - Charles Baudelaire Poet · France
+ Our squalid society rushed, Narcissus to a man, to gaze on its trivial image on a scrap of metal. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Charles Baudelaire, 0 - Charles Baudelaire Poet · France
+ The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Charles Baudelaire, Believe, Crowds, Literature, 0 - Charles Baudelaire Poet · France
+ Unable to do away with love, the Church found a way to decontaminate it by creating marriage. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Charles Baudelaire, Church, Creating, Love, 0 - Charles Baudelaire Poet · France
+ Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Charles Baudelaire, Art, Literature, 0 - Charles Baudelaire Poet · France
+ However incoherent a human existence may be, human unity is not bothered by it. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Charles Baudelaire, Human, Unity, 0 - Charles Baudelaire Poet · France
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
