If a given combination of trees, mountains, water, and houses, say a landscape, is beautiful, it is not so by itself, but because of me, of my favor, of the idea or feeling I attach to it.
Source: Salon of 1859.
-- Charles Baudelaire, (Apr 9 1821-1867), French poet, critic, translator; He was noted for his powerful expressionistic poetry and translation of the tales of Edgar Allan Poe.