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Source: Nature and Imagination: The Work of Odilon Redon
“I am certain about what I will never do - but not about what my art will render.”
“The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit.”
“It is difficult to judge one's contemporaries; perhaps it is impossible to understand them.”
“Like music my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate.”
“True art lies in a reality that is felt.”
Source: Beyond the visible: the art of Odilon Redon
“I have placed there a little door opening on to the mysterious. I have made stories.”
Source: Nature and Imagination: The Work of Odilon Redon
Source: Odilon Redon: pastels
“It is precisely from the regret left by the imperfect work that the next one can be born.”
“My originality consists in putting the logic of the visible to the service of the invisible.”
Source: Redon, drawings and lithographs: Museum of Modern Art, N.Y., [Feb. 14-April 20, 1952]