"I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy." ― Charles Baudelaire Topic(s): Beauty More From Charles Baudelaire "The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present." "It is from the womb of art that criticism was born." "It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish." More In Beauty "Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention."― Deepak Chopra "The cottage garden; most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute."― Charlotte Smith "I was amazed and upset by the looks I got just walking around the studio… It illuminates the ugliness and the beauty that exists within each of us, and that’s what this story represents to me."― Gerard Butler