Motifs, floral designs from 19th-century English crafts, flowers - Poster

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

“The sky is pretty like an angel.”

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

“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.”

“To create is always to speak of childhood.”

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

“Genius is childhood rediscovered at will.”

“But where are the snows of yesteryear?”

“Only children know what they are looking for.”

“Art is the premonition of truth.”

“One must be absolutely modern.”

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

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

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

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

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

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