Nature & Landscape

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

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

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

“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.”

“But where are the snows of yesteryear?”

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

“The sky is pretty like an angel.”

“Genius is childhood rediscovered at will.”

“Only children know what they are looking for.”

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

“Art is the premonition of truth.”

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

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

“To create is always to speak of childhood.”

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

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

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