Odilon Redon Quotes

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

Odilon Redon

#2. Black is the most essential of all colors. Above all, if I may say so, it draws its excitement and vitality from deep and secret sources of health ... One must admire black. Nothing can debauch it.

Odilon Redon

#3. You seek problems because you need their gifts.

Richard Bach

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

Odilon Redon

#5. Russia's biggest problem is organized crime and its leaders are influenced by the Russian mafia. But it's not right to call it a Russian mafia, it's a Jewish mafia.

David Duke

#6. Artists who approach perfection do not have many ideas.

Odilon Redon

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

Odilon Redon

#8. From my perspective, it's really risk management to ensure that humans have the ability to go somewhere else in case there were to be some huge disaster on Earth.

Gwynne Shotwell

#9. When you buy my books, you kind of know what you're in for. It's kind of self-selecting. If you have a delicate sensibility, and you're easily grossed out, you probably will never read one of my books.

Mary Roach

#10. While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality ... true art lies in a reality that is felt.

Odilon Redon

#11. 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.

Odilon Redon

#12. My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.

Odilon Redon

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

Odilon Redon

#14. My function in life was to render clear what was already blindingly conspicuous.

Quentin Crisp

#15. Love, and don't be caught in opinions and ideas about what love is or should be.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

Odilon Redon

#17. I have a feeling only for shadows

Odilon Redon

#18. I absolutely reject that idea that the press is liberal and what it does is liberal. In my view, it's like accusing a doctor of malpractice or a lawyer of malfeasance.

Ron Suskind

#19. Wake up every day knowing that today is a new day and only you can determine the outcome of that day. So dream big, accept the challenge, and never look back.

Alicia Sacramone

#20. 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.

Odilon Redon

#21. You know I love pot, and I love beer, but I am totally sober, just because it completely stopped working for me.

Anthony Kiedis

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

Odilon Redon

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

Odilon Redon

#24. Intuition is the gentle hand of divine love.

Leta B.

#25. All too many others have been more cautious than courageous and have remained silent behind the anesthetizing security of stained-glass windows

Martin Luther King Jr.

#26. One must respect black, nothing prostitutes it. It does not please the eye and it awakens no sensuality. It is the agent of the mind far more than the most beautiful color to the palette or prism

Odilon Redon

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

Odilon Redon

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

Odilon Redon

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

Odilon Redon

#30. I have tried to put the real at the service of the unreal.

Odilon Redon

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

Odilon Redon

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

Odilon Redon

#33. I am extremely disappointed by the actions of the 9/11 commission.

Curt Weldon

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

Odilon Redon

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

Odilon Redon

#36. Being gifted intellectually is only a small part of the equation of success. Concentrate on the factors you have control over: persistence, self-discipline, confidence. Far more failures are due to lack of will than lack of ability.

Terry Bradshaw

#37. Shoes are a mirror of what you want, what you are or what you're missing

Christian Louboutin