Flower Beds in Holland (c. 1883) by Vincent van Gogh - Poster

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

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

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

“Art is the premonition of truth.”

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

“The sky is pretty like an angel.”

“To create is always to speak of childhood.”

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

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

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

“One must be absolutely modern.”

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

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

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

“Genius is childhood rediscovered at will.”

“Only children know what they are looking for.”

“But where are the snows of yesteryear?”

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