The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit.

- Odilon Redon

While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.

- Odilon Redon

True art lies in a reality that is felt.

- Odilon Redon

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

- Odilon Redon

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

- Odilon Redon

I have placed there a little door opening on to the mysterious. I have made stories.

- Odilon Redon

Nothing in Art is achieved by will alone. It is achieved by docilely submitting to the subconscious.

- 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 the day left …

- Odilon Redon

Artists who approach perfection do not have many ideas.

- Odilon Redon