Île aux Fleurs near Vétheuil (1880) by Claude Monet - Poster

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

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

“Genius is childhood rediscovered at will.”

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

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

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

“To create is always to speak of childhood.”

“Only children know what they are looking for.”

“Art is the premonition of truth.”

“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.”

“The sky is pretty like an angel.”

“One must be absolutely modern.”

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

“But where are the snows of yesteryear?”

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

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

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