Charles Baudelaire
  • The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

  • Music fathoms the sky.

  • Nature... is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.

  • Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature?

  • Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.