Alfons Mucha print, Wine of the Incas poster

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

“Only children know what they are looking for.”

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

“Art is the premonition of truth.”

“The sky is pretty like an angel.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“But where are the snows of yesteryear?”

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

“Genius is childhood rediscovered at will.”

“To create is always to speak of childhood.”

“One must be absolutely modern.”

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

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

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