Odilon Redon
Odilon Redon
Odilon Redonwas a French symbolist painter, printmaker, draughtsman and pastellist...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth20 April 1840
CountryFrance
soul fundamentals masters
The fundamental grey which differentiates the masters, expresses them and is the soul of all colour.
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.
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.
feelings shadow
I have a feeling only for shadows
drawing inspire doe
My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.
color black
One must respect black. Nothing prostitutes it.
judging understanding impossible
It is difficult to judge one's contemporaries; perhaps it is impossible to understand them.
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.