Woman combing her hair (Femme qui se peigne) (1896) by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Print

“Art is the premonition of truth.”

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

“But where are the snows of yesteryear?”

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

“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.”

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

“Genius is childhood rediscovered at will.”

“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.”

“Only children know what they are looking for.”

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

“To create is always to speak of childhood.”

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

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

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

“The sky is pretty like an angel.”

“One must be absolutely modern.”

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