Cliffs at Pourville (1882) by Claude Monet - Poster

“The sky is pretty like an angel.”

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

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

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

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

“Art is the premonition of truth.”

“But where are the snows of yesteryear?”

“Genius is childhood rediscovered at will.”

“One must be absolutely modern.”

“Only children know what they are looking for.”

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

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

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

“To create is always to speak of childhood.”

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

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

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

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