Japanese kawaii poster, little girl

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

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

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

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

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

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

“The sky is pretty like an angel.”

“To create is always to speak of childhood.”

“Only children know what they are looking for.”

“One must be absolutely modern.”

“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?”

“Genius is childhood rediscovered at will.”

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

“Art is the premonition of truth.”

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

“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.”