Top 39 Redon Quotes
#1. Nothing gives me greater pleasure than to say yes, only to have my plans fall through at the last minute and I can take off my regular-people clothes and redon my paint-splattered yoga pants.
Jen Lancaster
#2. Artists who approach perfection do not have many ideas.
Odilon Redon
#3. Morals do not come from the state and society. Morality deals with weightier matters that measure our thoughts, words, and deeds against universals that are true regardless of time and place.
Jeffrey Tucker
#4. I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.
Odilon Redon
#5. The fundamental grey which differentiates the masters, expresses them and is the soul of all colour.
Odilon Redon
#6. 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
#7. Though we talk peace, we wage war. Sometimes we even wage war in the name of peace. Does that seem paradoxical? Well, war is not afraid of paradoxes.
Elie Wiesel
#8. 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
#9. Further and further we go, and the sun keeps ironing us and ironing us and ironing us.
NoViolet Bulawayo
#10. My originality consists in putting the logic of the visible to the service of the invisible.
Odilon Redon
#11. So Aquila took his father's service upon him. It wasn't as good as love; it wasn't as good as hate; but it was something to put into the emptiness within him; better than nothing at all.
Rosemary Sutcliff
#12. It is difficult to judge one's contemporaries; perhaps it is impossible to understand them.
Odilon Redon
#13. While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality ... true art lies in a reality that is felt.
Odilon Redon
#14. I am repelled by those who voice the word 'nature', without having any trace of it in their hearts.
Odilon Redon
#16. My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.
Odilon Redon
#17. Like music my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate.
Odilon Redon
#18. Obviously, she thought, angling her head up to the second story, where filthy windows clouded with dust and decay seemed to transform into yawning faces with soulless eyes.
Jessica Lemmon
#19. What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art.
Odilon Redon
#21. Don't slay that potato, let us be merciful please.
Tom Paxton
#22. The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit.
Odilon Redon
#23. We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.
Mignon McLaughlin
#24. Calvin: I'm a genius. I can't believe how smart I am.
... I've got more brains than I know what to do with.
Hobbes: So I've noticed.
Bill Watterson
#25. I have placed there a little door opening on to the mysterious. I have made stories.
Odilon Redon
#26. The value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence.
Odilon Redon
#27. Whoever screws up last loses. Whoever screws up second to last wins. That's what war is.
James S.A. Corey
#28. 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
#29. Nothing in Art is achieved by will alone. It is achieved by docilely submitting to the subconscious.
Odilon Redon
#30. All my originality consists?in giving life in human fashion to beings which are impossible according to the laws of possibility.
Odilon Redon
#31. I'm generally not a fan of didactic art because it papers over many of the hard experiences about war or anything else in life. I wanted to explore various aspects of the experience without an eye towards delivering any particular message.
Phil Klay
#32. 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
#33. When a government requires a man to support a child he was tricked into creating, that government subsidizes fraud. No. It is worse than that: It subsidizes the woman using a man's body for 18-21 years without his consent.
Warren Farrell
#34. One must not put trust in novelists, Beth; they create worlds to fit their own needs and drive their characters mad in doing it.
Mary Robinette Kowal
#35. I have tried to put the real at the service of the unreal.
Odilon Redon
#36. It is precisely from the regret left by the imperfect work that the next one can be born.
Odilon Redon
#37. Andrew has talked about my character being the conscience of the film, the heart of the film.
Jared Leto
#38. What makes you think you can survive as a saint in this world, unless you make it your business to exploit the gullible and greedy?
Anand Neelakantan
#39. I am certain about what I will never do - but not about what my art will render.
Odilon Redon
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