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Odilon Redon Biography

Odilon Redon (born Bertrand-Jean Redon; French: [ʁədɔ̃]; April 20, 1840 – July 6, 1916) was a French symbolist painter, printmaker, draughtsman and pastellist.

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The fundamental grey which differentiates the masters, expresses them and is the soul of all colour.

Fundamental, Fundamentals, Grey, Masters, Soul

Nothing in Art is achieved by will alone. It is achieved by docilely submitting to the subconscious.

Achievement, Alone, Art, Art Is, Docilely, Nothing

It is precisely from the regret left by the imperfect work that the next one can be born.

Imperfect, Left, Next, Regret

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

Artist, Spirit, Stimuli, Yield, Yields

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.

Artist, Goal, Intention, Measure, Passion, Set

Artists who approach perfection do not have many ideas.

Artist, Artists, Ideas, Perfection

I 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.

Appearance, Exercise, Next Day, Run, Running

The value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence.

Art, Force, Heightening, Increase, Lying, Moral

I have placed there a little door opening on to the mysterious. I have made stories.

Door, Doors, Littles, Opening, Placed, Stories

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

Ambiguous, Drawing, Indeterminate, Music, World

I have a feeling only for shadows

Feeling, Feelings, Shadow, Shadows

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

Heart, Hearts, Repelled, Trace, Voice, Word

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

Invisible, Logic, Originality, Visible

It is difficult to judge one's contemporaries; perhaps it is impossible to understand them.

Contemporaries, Impossible, Judge, Judging, Perhaps, Understanding

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

Art, Certain, Conviction, Render

I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.

Awakening, Joyous, Spirit, Surprise, Surprises

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