The beautiful is always bizarre
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"Le beau est toujours bizarre" (Eng: the beautiful is always bizarre) is a dictum by French poet Charles Baudelaire.
The phrase first appeared in print in Baudelaire's piece on the Exposition universelle, 1855, Beaux-arts, anthologized in Curiosités esthétiques.
- « Le beau est toujours bizarre. Je ne veux pas dire qu'il soit volontairement, froidement bizarre, car dans ce cas il serait un monstre sorti des rails de la vie. Je dis qu'il contient toujours un peu de bizarrerie, de bizarrerie non voulue, inconsciente, et que c'est cette bizarrerie qui le fait être particulièrement le Beau. »
English translation
- Beauty is always bizarre. I do not mean to say that it is deliberately, coldly bizarre, for in that case it would be a monster that has escaped from the confines of existence. I mean that it always contains a certain amount of strangeness, naïve strangeness, unforced and even unconscious, and that it is this strangeness that stamps it as Beautiful.""--1961 Grove Press translation of Baudelaire par lui-même (1952) by Pascal Pia
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See also
- There is no excellent beauty, that hath not some strangeness in the proportion
- Beauty
- Bizarre
- Cult of ugliness
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