Awakening Quote by Odilon Redon

“I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.” quote by Odilon Redon — Download Open image

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

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My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.

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

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True art lies in a reality that is felt.

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

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

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

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

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

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Artists who approach perfection do not have many ideas.

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The painter is not an intellectual if, when he has painted a nude woman, he gives us the idea that she is just about…

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

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The good work proceeds with tenacity, intention, without interruption, with an equal measure of passion and reason and it must surpass that goal the…

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Imitation is the first instinct of the awakening mind.

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“It is not so much about fighting against the ego; it is more about harmonizing with it.”

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Dawn's faint breath breathes with your mouth at the ends of empty streets. Gray light your eyes, sweet drops of dawn on dark hills. Your steps and breath like the wind of dawn smother houses. The city shudders, Stones exhale— you are life, an awakening. Star lost in the light of dawn, trill of the breeze, warmth, breath— the night…

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Motivation is awakening own mind and Inspiration is arising spirit in others to find their own with their heart and soul in all.

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“Everything we perceive to be solid and static is made up of almost entirely empty space.”

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Life is perhaps best regarded as a bad dream between two awakenings.

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“The Illusion - The source of suffering can be linked back to a condition of the mind that creates the illusion of separation--the state in which we see ourselves as disconnected and separate from the world and our experiences.”

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