Mystical portraits weaving together Russian symbolism with striking visuals, Astronomy Print

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

“Art is the premonition of truth.”

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

“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.”

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

“One must be absolutely modern.”

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

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

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

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

“To create is always to speak of childhood.”

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

“Only children know what they are looking for.”

“But where are the snows of yesteryear?”

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

“Genius is childhood rediscovered at will.”

“The sky is pretty like an angel.”

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