There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
ATTRIBUTION:
Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867), French poet. repr. In The Mirror of Art, ed. Jonathan Mayne (1955). “Salon of 1846,” sct. 2, Curiosités Esthétiques (1868).
Baudelaire may have been recalling a footnote in ch. 110 of Stendhal’s Histoire de la Peinture en Italie: “La beauté est l’expression d’une certaine manière habituelle de chercher le bonheur.”
