What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art.
Odilon RedonI await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.
Odilon RedonMy drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.
Odilon RedonIt is precisely from the regret left by the imperfect work that the next one can be born.
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 Redon