Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally goodness is always the product of some art.
To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.
Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate good is always the product of an art.
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.
There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.
The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.
There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.
The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.