Alphonse Mucha Posters

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

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

“One must be absolutely modern.”

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

“Only children know what they are looking for.”

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

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

“Genius is childhood rediscovered at will.”

“To create is always to speak of childhood.”

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

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

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

“But where are the snows of yesteryear?”

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

“Art is the premonition of truth.”

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

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

“The sky is pretty like an angel.”