| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 5882 |
| QUOTATION: | An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportions. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867), French poet, critic. New Notes on E. Poe, part IV (1859). |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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