The tree-man of hell - Detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights - Poster

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“Genius is childhood rediscovered at will.”

“But where are the snows of yesteryear?”

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

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

“Only children know what they are looking for.”

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

“One must be absolutely modern.”

“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.”

“Art is the premonition of truth.”

“The sky is pretty like an angel.”

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

“To create is always to speak of childhood.”