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
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.
judging understanding impossible
It is difficult to judge one's contemporaries; perhaps it is impossible to understand them.
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.