Hope I (1903) by Gustav Klimt - Poster

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

“To create is always to speak of childhood.”

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

“Art is the premonition of truth.”

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

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

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

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

“Only children know what they are looking for.”

“The sky is pretty like an angel.”

“Genius is childhood rediscovered at will.”

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

“One must be absolutely modern.”

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

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

“But where are the snows of yesteryear?”

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

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