The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
Charles BaudelaireWhat could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait.
Charles BaudelaireImagination is the queen of truth, and possibility is one of the regions of truth. She is positively akin to infinity.
Charles BaudelaireMy 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
Charles Baudelaire