- Stendhal
Source: Stendhal (Mari-Henri Beyle) quoted in Baudelaire, Charles. 1859. Originally printed in essay "La Peinture de la Vie Moderne". Le Figaro, Paris, 26 & 28 November and 3 December 1863. Translation by Jonathan Mayne (ed). 1964. The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays. In Chapter: Beauty, Fashion and Happiness. London: Phaidon Press. p.3. Available online from http://www.columbia.edu/itc/architecture/ockman/pdfs/dossier_4/Baudelaire.pdf [Downloaded 2010-05-26].
Original quote in French: "La beauté est l'expression d'une certaine manière habituelle de chercher le bonheur"
Stendhal, according to Charles Baudelaire, was "an impertinent, teasing, even a disagreeable critic, but one whose impertinences are often a useful spur to reflection" who approached "the truth more closely than many another" with this specific quote.
SvarSlettSource: Baudelaire, Charles. 1859. Originally printed in essay "La Peinture de la Vie Moderne". Le Figaro, Paris, 26 & 28 November and 3 December 1863. Translation by Jonathan Mayne (ed). 1964. The Painter of Modern Life and Other Essays. In Chapter: Beauty, Fashion and Happiness. London: Phaidon Press. p.3. Available online from http://www.columbia.edu/itc/architecture/ockman/pdfs/dossier_4/Baudelaire.pdf [Downloaded 2010-05-26].