Opening Quotes 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.

— Odilon Redon

I am certain about what I will never do - but not about what my art will render.

— Odilon Redon

True art lies in a reality that is felt.

— Odilon Redon

It is difficult to judge one's contemporaries; perhaps it is impossible to understand them.

— Odilon Redon

“I have tried to put the real at the service of the unreal.”

— Odilon Redon

It is precisely from the regret left by the imperfect work that the next one can be born.

— Odilon Redon

I am repelled by those who voice the word 'nature', without having any trace of it in their hearts.

— Odilon Redon

The fundamental grey which differentiates the masters, expresses them and is the soul of all colour.

— Odilon Redon

Artists who approach perfection do not have many ideas.

— 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…

— Odilon Redon

Like music my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate.

— Odilon Redon

I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.

— Odilon Redon