#m

It is from the womb of art that criticism was born. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#born #criticism #womb

Our religion is itself profoundly sad - a religion of universal anguish, and one which, because of its very catholicity, grants full liberty to the individual and asks no better than to be celebrated in each man's own language - so long as he knows anguish and is a painter. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#asks #because #better #catholicity #celebrated

There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#does #dream #end #fat #greedy

We were raised without movies, theater or music. We had only nature, the hills, the trees. When I got on the set of 'Manon,' I wasn't star-struck because I didn't know what a star was. ↗

— Emmanuelle Beart

#got #had #hills #i #know

If you say, I love you, then you have already fallen in love with language, which is already a form of break up and infidelity. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#break #break up #fallen #form #i

Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#may #teeth #wonderful

I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again. When you go to confession and entrust your sins to the safe-keeping of the priest, do you ever come back for them? ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#again #am #back #bank #come

Deep down, the US, with its space, its technological refinement, its bluff good conscience, even in those spaces which it opens up for simulation, is the only remaining primitive society. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#conscience #deep #deep down #down #even

As a little kid, I climbed a lot of trees because I always loved the bird's-eye view. ↗

— Felix Baumgartner

#because #bird #climbed #i #i always

Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#day #embodies #fear #knows #night