La Japonaise, Camille Monet in Japanese Costume (1876) by Claude Monet - Poster

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

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

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

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

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

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

“One must be absolutely modern.”

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

“The sky is pretty like an angel.”

“But where are the snows of yesteryear?”

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

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

“To create is always to speak of childhood.”

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

“Genius is childhood rediscovered at will.”

“Art is the premonition of truth.”

“Only children know what they are looking for.”

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