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,… — 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
