The Bathing Pool and the Cavalcade, Detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights - Poster

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

“One must be absolutely modern.”

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

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

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

“But where are the snows of yesteryear?”

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

“Genius is childhood rediscovered at will.”

“Art is the premonition of truth.”

“Only children know what they are looking for.”

“The sky is pretty like an angel.”

“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.”

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

“To create is always to speak of childhood.”

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

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

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