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> [The value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/odilon-redon/the-value-of-art-lies-in-its-power-to-increase-our-moral-force-or/)

[Odilon Redon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/odilon-redon/)

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## More by Odilon Redon

> [My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/odilon-redon/my-drawings-inspire-and-are-not-to-be-defined-they-place-us-as-does/)

[Odilon Redon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/odilon-redon/)

> [I am certain about what I will never do - but not about what my art will render.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/odilon-redon/i-am-certain-about-what-i-will-never-do-but-not-about-what-my-art/)

[Odilon Redon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/odilon-redon/)

> [True art lies in a reality that is felt.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/odilon-redon/true-art-lies-in-a-reality-that-is-felt/)

[Odilon Redon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/odilon-redon/)

> [It is difficult to judge one's contemporaries; perhaps it is impossible to understand them.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/odilon-redon/it-is-difficult-to-judge-one-s-contemporaries-perhaps-it-is/)

[Odilon Redon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/odilon-redon/)

> [“I have tried to put the real at the service of the unreal.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/odilon-redon/i-have-tried-to-put-the-real-at-the-service-of-the-unreal/)

[Odilon Redon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/odilon-redon/)

> [It is precisely from the regret left by the imperfect work that the next one can be born.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/odilon-redon/it-is-precisely-from-the-regret-left-by-the-imperfect-work-that-the/)

[Odilon Redon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/odilon-redon/)

> [I am repelled by those who voice the word 'nature', without having any trace of it in their hearts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/odilon-redon/i-am-repelled-by-those-who-voice-the-word-nature-without-having-any/)

[Odilon Redon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/odilon-redon/)

> [The fundamental grey which differentiates the masters, expresses them and is the soul of all colour.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/odilon-redon/the-fundamental-grey-which-differentiates-the-masters-expresses-them/)

[Odilon Redon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/odilon-redon/)

> [Artists who approach perfection do not have many ideas.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/odilon-redon/artists-who-approach-perfection-do-not-have-many-ideas/)

[Odilon Redon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/odilon-redon/)

> [The painter is not an intellectual if, when he has painted a nude woman, he gives us the idea that she is just about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/odilon-redon/the-painter-is-not-an-intellectual-if-when-he-has-painted-a-nude/)

[Odilon Redon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/odilon-redon/)

> [Like music my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/odilon-redon/like-music-my-drawings-transport-us-to-the-ambiguous-world-of-the/)

[Odilon Redon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/odilon-redon/)

> [I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/odilon-redon/i-await-joyous-surprises-while-working-an-awakening-of-the-materials/)

[Odilon Redon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/odilon-redon/)

> [The good work proceeds with tenacity, intention, without interruption, with an equal measure of passion and reason and it must surpass that goal the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/odilon-redon/the-good-work-proceeds-with-tenacity-intention-without-interruption/)

[Odilon Redon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/odilon-redon/)

> [My originality consists in putting the logic of the visible to the service of the invisible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/odilon-redon/my-originality-consists-in-putting-the-logic-of-the-visible-to-the/)

[Odilon Redon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/odilon-redon/)

> [I have often, as an exercise and as a sustenance, painted before an object down to the smallest accidents of its visual appearance; but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/odilon-redon/i-have-often-as-an-exercise-and-as-a-sustenance-painted-before-an/)

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