Desert Hand Poster

“Genius is childhood rediscovered at will.”

“Art is the premonition of truth.”

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

“But where are the snows of yesteryear?”

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

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

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

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

“To create is always to speak of childhood.”

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

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

“Only children know what they are looking for.”

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

“One must be absolutely modern.”

“The sky is pretty like an angel.”

“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.”

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

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