Red-Headed Nude Crouching by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Poster

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

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

“But where are the snows of yesteryear?”

“Art is the premonition of truth.”

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

“Only children know what they are looking for.”

“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.”

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

“To create is always to speak of childhood.”

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

“One must be absolutely modern.”

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

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

“The sky is pretty like an angel.”

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

“Genius is childhood rediscovered at will.”

“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.”