The Face - Vermeer Girl with a Pearl Earring Detail Poster

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“Only children know what they are looking for.”

“One must be absolutely modern.”

“The sky is pretty like an angel.”

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

“Genius is childhood rediscovered at will.”

“To create is always to speak of childhood.”

“But where are the snows of yesteryear?”

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

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

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

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