Mexican abstract art of the 20th century, Shadow - Poster

“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.”

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

“One must be absolutely modern.”

“But where are the snows of yesteryear?”

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

“To create is always to speak of childhood.”

“Only children know what they are looking for.”

“The sky is pretty like an angel.”

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

“Art is the premonition of truth.”

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

“Genius is childhood rediscovered at will.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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