Roof of the World - Poster

“Genius is childhood rediscovered at will.”

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

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

“But where are the snows of yesteryear?”

“One must be absolutely modern.”

“The sky is pretty like an angel.”

“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.”

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

“To create is always to speak of childhood.”

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

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

“Only children know what they are looking for.”

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

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

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

“Art is the premonition of truth.”