Odilon Redon Quotations

I am repelled by those who voice the word 'nature', without having any trace of it in their hearts.

The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit.

Artists who approach perfection do not have many ideas.

All my originality consists?in giving life in human fashion to beings which are impossible according to the laws of possibility.

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.

My originality consists in putting the logic of the visible to the service of the invisible.

Like music my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate.

I am certain about what I will never do - but not about what my art will render.

What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art.

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.