It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely.
Charles BaudelaireThis industry [photography], by invading the territories of art, has become art's most mortal enemy.
Charles BaudelaireOne should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.
Charles BaudelaireThe photographic industry was the refuge of all the painters who couldn't make it, either because they had no talent or because they were too lazy to finish their studies. Hence this universal infatuation was not only characterized by blindness and stupidity, but also by vindictiveness.
Charles Baudelaire