Abstract expressionism, fields at night - Poster

“To create is always to speak of childhood.”

“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.”

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

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

“Genius is childhood rediscovered at will.”

“The sky is pretty like an angel.”

“Art is the premonition of truth.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Only children know what they are looking for.”

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

“One must be absolutely modern.”