While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt. — 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
The good work proceeds with tenacity, intention, without interruption, with an equal measure of passion and reason and it must surpass that goal the… — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
My originality consists in putting the logic of the visible to the service of the invisible. — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
I have often, as an exercise and as a sustenance, painted before an object down to the smallest accidents of its visual appearance; but… — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
