American intimate figurative, abstract trend, Forest and Lake - Poster

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

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

“The sky is pretty like an angel.”

“Art is the premonition of truth.”

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

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

“One must be absolutely modern.”

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

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

“But where are the snows of yesteryear?”

“To create is always to speak of childhood.”

“Only children know what they are looking for.”

“Genius is childhood rediscovered at will.”

“Beauty is always strange. I do not mean that it is deliberately, coldly strange, for in that case it would be a monster off the rails of life. I say that it always contains a little strangeness, a naive strangeness.”

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

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

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

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