Botticelli’s Venus Poster with Falling Flowers

“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.”

“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.”

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

“The sky is pretty like an angel.”

“Genius is childhood rediscovered at will.”

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“Only children know what they are looking for.”

“Art is the premonition of truth.”

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

“But where are the snows of yesteryear?”

“One must be absolutely modern.”