Louis Janmot “Fleur des Champs” Portrait Detail Poster

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

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

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

“The sky is pretty like an angel.”

“But where are the snows of yesteryear?”

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

“One must be absolutely modern.”

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

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

“Genius is childhood rediscovered at will.”

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

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

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

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

“To create is always to speak of childhood.”

“Only children know what they are looking for.”

“Art is the premonition of truth.”

“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.”