The Seine near Giverny (1888) by Claude Monet - Poster

“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.”

“Genius is childhood rediscovered at will.”

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

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

“Only children know what they are looking for.”

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

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

“Art is the premonition of truth.”

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

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

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

“The sky is pretty like an angel.”

“One must be absolutely modern.”

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

“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.”