Lovers in a Bubble, Detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights - Poster

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

“Art is the premonition of truth.”

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

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

“To create is always to speak of childhood.”

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

“Genius is childhood rediscovered at will.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“One must be absolutely modern.”

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

“But where are the snows of yesteryear?”

“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.”

“The sky is pretty like an angel.”