Odilon Redon
Odilon Redon
Odilon Redonwas a French symbolist painter, printmaker, draughtsman and pastellist...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth20 April 1840
CountryFrance
awakening spirit surprise
I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.
originality logic invisible
My originality consists in putting the logic of the visible to the service of the invisible.
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.
judging understanding impossible
It is difficult to judge one's contemporaries; perhaps it is impossible to understand them.
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.
drawing world ambiguous
Like music my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate.