My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.
Interpretation
Art should evoke feelings and thoughts without strict definitions, similar to music.
Odilon Redon's quote emphasizes the profound impact of art as a medium that can inspire and provoke thought without being confined to specific interpretations. Just like music, his drawings exist in a space of ambiguity, allowing viewers to experience a range of emotions and meanings, rather than adhering to a singular definition or message.
In practice
In an art gallery setting, discussing how Redon's philosophy relates to interpreting modern artistic expressions.
If there’s a thing, a scene, maybe, an image that you want to see real bad, that you need to see but it doesn’t exist in the world around you, at least not in the form that you envision, then you create it so that you can look at it and have it around, or show it to other people who wouldn’t have imagined it because they perceive reality in a more narrow, predictable way. And that’s it. That’s all an artist does.
I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something - no, maybe junior - and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book.
You have a strange relationship with calamity when you're a writer: you write about it; as an artist, you objectify and fetishize it. You render life into material, and that's a creepy thing to do.
Blogging is to writing what extreme sports are to athletics: more free-form, more accident-prone, less formal, more alive. It is, in many ways, writing out loud.
I can paint pictures, but I cannot rule men.
Like a midwife, I make my living bringing new babies into the world, except that mine are new advertising campaigns.
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