The Starry Night (1889) by Vincent van Gogh - Poster

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

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

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

“Art is the premonition of truth.”

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

“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.”

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

“To create is always to speak of childhood.”

“Genius is childhood rediscovered at will.”

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

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

“One must be absolutely modern.”

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

“The sky is pretty like an angel.”

“But where are the snows of yesteryear?”

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

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