Hope II (1907–1908) by Gustav Klimt - Poster

“Genius is childhood rediscovered at will.”

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

“One must be absolutely modern.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“The sky is pretty like an angel.”

“Art is the premonition of truth.”

“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.”

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

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

“Only children know what they are looking for.”

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

“But where are the snows of yesteryear?”

“To create is always to speak of childhood.”