Seated Mother, Villa of the Mysteries Fresco Detail - Poster

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

“Only children know what they are looking for.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“Art is the premonition of truth.”

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

“The sky is pretty like an angel.”

“One must be absolutely modern.”

“But where are the snows of yesteryear?”

“Genius is childhood rediscovered at will.”

“To create is always to speak of childhood.”

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