L’Illumination - Sun Poster

“Only children know what they are looking for.”

“But where are the snows of yesteryear?”

“The sky is pretty like an angel.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“Art is the premonition of truth.”

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

“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.”

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

“To create is always to speak of childhood.”

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

“Genius is childhood rediscovered at will.”

“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.”