To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons.
Charles BaudelaireSo as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, be endlessly drunk.
Charles BaudelaireLa, tout nโest quโordre et beautรฉ Luxe, calme et voluptรฉ There, there is nothing else but grace and measure, Richness, quietness, and pleasure.
Charles BaudelaireArtist should look at the reality and brutality of modern life in all its color, nature with all its imperfections - that should be the challenge to the modern painter not the didactic idealization of the past. The new generation should forge a new path.
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