Vermeer: Girl with a Pearl Earring

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

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

“But where are the snows of yesteryear?”

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

“Art is the premonition of truth.”

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

“To create is always to speak of childhood.”

“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.”

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

“The sky is pretty like an angel.”

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

“Genius is childhood rediscovered at will.”

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

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

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

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

“One must be absolutely modern.”