Bordighera (1884) by Claude Monet - Poster

“One must be absolutely modern.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“To create is always to speak of childhood.”

“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.”

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

“The sky is pretty like an angel.”

“But where are the snows of yesteryear?”

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

“Genius is childhood rediscovered at will.”