Famous Quotes | Beauty consists of an eternal,...

Beauty consists of an eternal, invariable element, whose quantity is excessively difficult to determine, and of a relative, circumstantial element, which will be, if you like, by turns or all together, the era, its fashion, its morals, its passions. - Charles Baudelaire
Attribution: Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867), French poet, critic. The Painter of Modern Life, I “Beauty, Fashion, and Happiness,” (1863).

Categories: Beauty, Critic, Fashion

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