Ice Breaking Up on the Seine near Bennecourt (1893) by Claude Monet - Poster

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

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

“Genius is childhood rediscovered at will.”

“Only children know what they are looking for.”

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

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

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

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

“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 the premonition of truth.”

“But where are the snows of yesteryear?”

“The sky is pretty like an angel.”

“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.”

“To create is always to speak of childhood.”

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

“One must be absolutely modern.”

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