Roulin's Baby (1888) by Vincent van Gogh - Poster

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“To create is always to speak of childhood.”

“One must be absolutely modern.”

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

“Only children know what they are looking for.”

“The sky is pretty like an angel.”

“But where are the snows of yesteryear?”

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

“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.”

“Genius is childhood rediscovered at will.”

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