Shades of blue

“Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.”

“To create is always to speak of childhood.”

“One must be absolutely modern.”

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”

“Perfumes, colors, and sounds respond to one another.”

“The sky is pretty like an angel.”

“Art hovers around the truth, but with the firm intention not to burn itself.”

“Art is the premonition of truth.”

“Only children know what they are looking for.”

“Genius is childhood rediscovered at will.”

“Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.”

“One sees clearly only with the heart. The essential is invisible to the eyes.”

“Sight does not master the pictures, it is the pictures which master one's sight. They flood one's consciousness.”

“But where are the snows of yesteryear?”

“Tears fall in my heart as rain falls on the town.”

“Art is born of constraints, lives of struggles, and dies of freedom.”

“If the world were clear, art would not be.”

“Art is the reflection that the dazzled human soul gives back of the splendor of the beautiful.”