I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.
Odilon RedonThe 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.
Odilon RedonI 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.
Odilon RedonIt is precisely from the regret left by the imperfect work that the next one can be born.
Odilon RedonThe value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence.
Odilon RedonWhile I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
Odilon RedonThe fundamental grey which differentiates the masters, expresses them and is the soul of all colour.
Odilon RedonMy originality consists in putting the logic of the visible to the service of the invisible.
Odilon RedonMy drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.
Odilon Redon