The Olive Trees (1889) by Vincent van Gogh - Poster

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

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

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

“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.”

“To create is always to speak of childhood.”

“One must be absolutely modern.”

“Only children know what they are looking for.”

“Genius is childhood rediscovered at will.”

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

“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.”

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

“The sky is pretty like an angel.”

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

“But where are the snows of yesteryear?”

“Art is the premonition of truth.”

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