If photography is allowed to supplement art in some of its functions, it will soon have supplanted or corrupted it altogether, thanks to the stupidity of the multitude which is its natural ally.
Charles BaudelaireModernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
Charles BaudelaireThe taste for pleasure attaches us to the present. The concern with our salvation leaves us hanging on the future.
Charles BaudelaireThere is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.
Charles Baudelaire