Nature & Landscape

“Only children know what they are looking for.”

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

“Art is the premonition of truth.”

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

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

“The sky is pretty like an angel.”

“Genius is childhood rediscovered at will.”

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

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

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

“To create is always to speak of childhood.”

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

“One must be absolutely modern.”

“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.”

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

“But where are the snows of yesteryear?”

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

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