Odilon Redon Art Quotes
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Odilon Redon Quotations
"My drawings inspire and are not to be defined. They determine nothing. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous world of the undetermined. They are a kind of metaphor." -- Odilon Redon
"I have placed there a little door opening on to the mysterious. I have made stories." -- Odilon Redon
"While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt." -- Odilon Redon
"A
painter is not
intellectual when having
painted a nude woman, he
leaves in our minds the
idea that she is going
to get dressed again
right away." -- Odilon
Redon
"While I recognize the
necessity for a basis of
observed reality... true
art lies in a reality
that is felt." -- Odilon
Redon
"What distuingishes the
artist from the
dilettante? Only the
pain the artist feels.
The dilettante looks
only for pleasure in
art." -- Odilon Redon
"The value of art lies
in its power to increase
our moral force or
establish its
heightening influence."
-- Odilon Redon
"The fundamental grey
which differentiates the
masters, expresses them
and is the soul of all
colour." -- Odilon Redon
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