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Odilon Redon - From the Achievement category:
Nothing in Art is achieved by will alone. It is achieved by docilely submitting to the subconscious. (Odilon Redon)
Odilon Redon - From the Anticipation category:
I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops. (Odilon Redon)
Odilon Redon - From the Artists category:
The Artist submits from day to day to the fatal rhythm of the impulses of the universal world which encloses him, continual centre of sensations, always pliant, hypnotized by the marvels of nature which he loves, he scrutinizes. His eyes, like his soul, are in perpetual communion with the most fortuitous of phenomena. (Odilon Redon)
Odilon Redon - From the Colour category:
The fundamental grey, which differentiates the masters, expresses them, is the soul of all colour. (Odilon Redon)
Odilon Redon - From the Conviction category:
I am certain about what I will never do - but not about what my art will render. (Odilon Redon)
Odilon Redon - From the Drawing category:
My drawings inspire and are not to be defined. They determine nothing. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous world of the undetermined. They are a kind of metaphor. (Odilon Redon)
Odilon Redon - From the Emotion category:
I have a feeling only for shadows. (Odilon Redon)
Odilon Redon - From the Flexibility category:
It is precisely from the regret left by the imperfect work that the next one can be born. (Odilon Redon)
Odilon Redon - From the Materials category:
The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit. (Odilon Redon)
Odilon Redon - From the Nudes category:
A painter is not intellectual when having painted a nude woman, he leaves in our minds the idea that she is going to get dressed again right away. (Odilon Redon)
Odilon Redon - From the Originality category:
My originality consists in putting the logic of the visible to the service of the invisible. (Odilon Redon)
Odilon Redon - From the Perfection category:
Artists who approach perfection do not have many ideas. (Odilon Redon)
Odilon Redon - From the Progress category:
It is precisely from the regret left by the imperfect work that the next one can be born. (Odilon Redon)
Odilon Redon - From the Reality category:
While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt. (Odilon Redon)
Odilon Redon - From the Satisfaction category:
I have often, as an exercise and as a sustenance, painted before an object down to the smallest accidents of its visual appearance. But the day left me sad and with an unsatiated thirst. The next day I let the other source run, that of imagination through the recollection of the forms and I was then reassured and appeased. (Odilon Redon)
Odilon Redon - From the Suffering category:
What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art. (Odilon Redon)
Odilon Redon - From the Titles category:
A title is justified only when it is vague and even aims confusedly at the elliptical. My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They determine nothing. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined. They are a kind of metaphor... (Odilon Redon)
Odilon Redon - From the Understanding category:
It is difficult to judge one's contemporaries; perhaps it is impossible to understand them. (Odilon Redon)
Odilon Redon - From the Work category:
The good work proceeds with tenacity, intention, without interruption, with an equal measure of passion and reason and it must surpass that goal the artist has set for himself. (Odilon Redon)
Odilon Redon - From the Worth category:
The value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence. (Odilon Redon)
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