Portrait of Friederike Maria Beer (1916) by Gustav Klimt - Poster

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

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

“To create is always to speak of childhood.”

“But where are the snows of yesteryear?”

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

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

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

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

“One must be absolutely modern.”

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

“The sky is pretty like an angel.”

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

“Only children know what they are looking for.”

“Genius is childhood rediscovered at will.”

“Art is the premonition of truth.”

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

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

“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.”