Since photography gives us every guarantee of exactitude that we could desire (they really believe that, the mad fools !), then photography and art are the same thing.
Charles BaudelaireLet us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.
Charles BaudelaireThere is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast.
Charles BaudelaireAscend beyond the sickly atmosphere to a higher plane, and purify yourself by drinking as if it were ambrosia the fire that fills and fuels Emptiness. Free from the futile strivings and the cares which dim existence to a realm of mist, happy is he who wings an upward way on mighty pinions to the fields of light; whose thoughts like larks spontaneously rise into the morning sky; whose flight, unchecked, outreaches life and readily comprehends the language of flowers and of all mute things.
Charles Baudelaire