The Harp and the Lute of Musical Hell, Detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights - Poster

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

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

“The sky is pretty like an angel.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“To create is always to speak of childhood.”

“But where are the snows of yesteryear?”

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

“Genius is childhood rediscovered at will.”

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

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

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

“Art is the premonition of truth.”

“One must be absolutely modern.”