Odilon Redon (born Bertrand Redon; French: [ɔdilɔ̃ ʁədɔ̃]; 20 April 1840 – 6 July 1916) was a French Symbolist artist. (wikipedia)
The 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.
I have placed there a little door opening on to the mysterious. I have made stories.
The value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence.
The fundamental grey which differentiates the masters, expresses them and is the soul of all colour.
I have a feeling only for shadows
My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.
One must respect black. Nothing prostitutes it.
Nothing in Art is achieved by will alone. It is achieved by docilely submitting to the subconscious.
It is difficult to judge one's contemporaries; perhaps it is impossible to understand them.
It is precisely from the regret left by the imperfect work that the next one can be born.