Odilon Redon
Odilon Redon
Odilon Redonwas a French symbolist painter, printmaker, draughtsman and pastellist...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth20 April 1840
CountryFrance
art achievement subconscious
Nothing in Art is achieved by will alone. It is achieved by docilely submitting to the subconscious.
heart voice
I am repelled by those who voice the word 'nature', without having any trace of it in their hearts.
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.
fashion law giving
All my originality consists?in giving life in human fashion to beings which are impossible according to the laws of possibility.
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.
originality logic invisible
My originality consists in putting the logic of the visible to the service of the invisible.
drawing world ambiguous
Like music my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate.
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.
regret next imperfect
It is precisely from the regret left by the imperfect work that the next one can be born.
awakening spirit surprise
I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.
running exercise next-day
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 me sad and with an unsatiated thirst. The next day I let the other source run, that of imagination, through the recollection of the forms and I was then reassured and appeased.