A Quote by Charles Baudelaire

Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty.

Charles Baudelaire

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Beauty Indispensable Strangeness

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Charles Baudelaire
French - Poet
April 9, 1821 - August 31, 1867

Vance has a genius in evoking the beauty of strangeness, the strangeness of beauty.

Jack Vance

I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.

Karl Lagerfeld

A certain strangeness, something of the blossoming of the aloe, is indeed an element in all true works of art: that they shall excite or surprise us is indispensable.

Walter Pater

There is no beauty without some strangeness

Edgar Allan Poe

Strangeness is an ingredient necessary in beauty.

Charles Baudelaire

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

Charles Baudelaire

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Francis Bacon

Photography is the recording of strangeness and beauty with beguiling precision.

Sebastian Smee

It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.

Walter Hagen

In Los Angeles, I feel connected to a hubbub of strangeness. And I enjoy that; I like strangeness.

Robbie Williams

Having lived long enough to go at least once or twice around the block, I'm noticing that the strangeness is not receding The strangeness seems to be accelerating.

Terence McKenna

The first progressive step for a mind overwhelmed by the strangeness of things is to realize that this feeling of strangeness is shared with all men and that human reality, in its entirety, suffers from the distance which separates it from the rest of the universe.

Albert Camus

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.

Richard Le Gallienne

'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' had a formative effect on me. I think it's one of those works that if you encounter it very early you're doubly enchanted by the beauty of the language and the strangeness of the vision. It stays with you.

Ben Okri

The storyline of a fantasy novel is filled with such a sense of enchantment, beauty and strangeness; it allows the writer to explore the big ontological questions of life that would sound like a sermon in a social realist novel.