Mäda Primavesi (1912–1913) by Gustav Klimt - Poster

“But where are the snows of yesteryear?”

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

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

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

“Genius is childhood rediscovered at will.”

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

“Art is the premonition of truth.”

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

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

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

“One must be absolutely modern.”

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

“To create is always to speak of childhood.”

“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.”

“Only children know what they are looking for.”

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

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