Odilon Redon
Odilon Redon
Odilon Redonwas a French symbolist painter, printmaker, draughtsman and pastellist...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth20 April 1840
CountryFrance
Odilon Redon quotes about
art lying moral
The value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence.
art achievement subconscious
Nothing in Art is achieved by will alone. It is achieved by docilely submitting to the subconscious.
artist yield spirit
The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit.
artist ideas perfection
Artists who approach perfection do not have many ideas.
passion artist goal
The good work proceeds with tenacity, intention, without interruption, with an equal measure of passion and reason and it must surpass that goal the artist has set for himself.
art conviction certain
I am certain about what I will never do - but not about what my art will render.
art pain looks
What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art.
eye artist soul
The Artist submits from day to day to the fatal rhythm of the impulses of the universal world which encloses him, continual centre of sensations, always pliant, hypnotized by the marvels of nature which he loves, he scrutinizes. His eyes, like his soul, are in perpetual communion with the most fortuitous of phenomena.
art lying reality
While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
art lying reality
True art lies in a reality that is felt.
ideas clothes giving
The painter is not an intellectual if, when he has painted a nude woman, he gives us the idea that she is just about to put her clothes back on.
doors stories littles
I have placed there a little door opening on to the mysterious. I have made stories.
soul fundamentals masters
The fundamental grey which differentiates the masters, expresses them and is the soul of all colour.
feelings shadow
I have a feeling only for shadows