Sunset at Pourville, Open Sea (1882) by Claude Monet - Poster

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“But where are the snows of yesteryear?”

“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.”

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

“Genius is childhood rediscovered at will.”

“To create is always to speak of childhood.”

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

“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.”

“Only children know what they are looking for.”

“One must be absolutely modern.”

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

“The sky is pretty like an angel.”