All my originality consists?in giving life in human fashion to beings which are impossible according to the laws of possibility.
I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops. - Odilon Redon
I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.
- Odilon Redon
True art lies in a reality that is felt. - Odilon Redon
True art lies in a reality that is felt.
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
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 …
Nothing in Art is achieved by will alone. It is achieved by docilely submitting to the subconscious. - Odilon Redon
Nothing in Art is achieved by will alone. It is achieved by docilely submitting to the subconscious.
Artists who approach perfection do not have many ideas. - Odilon Redon
Artists who approach perfection do not have many ideas.
I have placed there a little door opening on to the mysterious. I have made stories. - Odilon Redon
I have placed there a little door opening on to the mysterious. I have made stories.
I am repelled by those who voice the word 'nature', without having any trace of it in their hearts. - Odilon Redon
I am repelled by those who voice the word 'nature', without having any trace of it in their hearts.
My originality consists in putting the logic of the visible to the service of the invisible. - Odilon Redon
My originality consists in putting the logic of the visible to the service of the invisible.
Like music my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate. - Odilon Redon
Like music my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate.
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