Sappho fresco art print from Pompeii

“But where are the snows of yesteryear?”

“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.”

“Art is the premonition of truth.”

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

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

“One must be absolutely modern.”

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

“Only children know what they are looking for.”

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

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

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

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

“Genius is childhood rediscovered at will.”

“The sky is pretty like an angel.”

“To create is always to speak of childhood.”

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

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

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