The Pink Castle with Blue Horns, Detail from The Garden of Earthly Delights - Poster

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

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

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

“Only children know what they are looking for.”

“Genius is childhood rediscovered at will.”

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

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

“To create is always to speak of childhood.”

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

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

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

“The sky is pretty like an angel.”

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

“One must be absolutely modern.”

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

“Art is the premonition of truth.”

“But where are the snows of yesteryear?”