The painter is not an intellectual if, when he has painted a nude woman, he gives us the idea that she is just about to put her clothes back on. — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
All my originality consists?in giving life in human fashion to beings which are impossible according to the laws of possibility. — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined. — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
I am certain about what I will never do - but not about what my art will render. — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
It is difficult to judge one's contemporaries; perhaps it is impossible to understand them. — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
It is precisely from the regret left by the imperfect work that the next one can be born. — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
I am repelled by those who voice the word 'nature', without having any trace of it in their hearts. — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
The fundamental grey which differentiates the masters, expresses them and is the soul of all colour. — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
The painter is not an intellectual if, when he has painted a nude woman, he gives us the idea that she is just about… — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
Like music my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate. — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops. — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
