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Top 25 Odilon Redon Quotes (2025 Update)

Odilon Redon Quote: “What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art.”

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

— Odilon Redon

Odilon Redon Quote: “The value of art lies in its power to increase our moral force or establish its heightening influence.”

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

— Odilon Redon

Odilon Redon Quote: “The fundamental grey which differentiates the masters, expresses them and is the soul of all colour.”

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

— Odilon Redon

Odilon Redon Quote: “True art lies in a reality that is felt.”

4. “True art lies in a reality that is felt.”

— Odilon Redon

Odilon Redon Quote: “I have a feeling only for shadows.”

5. “I have a feeling only for shadows.”

— Odilon Redon

Odilon Redon Quote: “My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.”

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

— Odilon Redon

Odilon Redon Quote: “My originality consists in putting the logic of the visible to the service of the invisible.”

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

— Odilon Redon

Odilon Redon Quote: “Like music my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate.”

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

— Odilon Redon

Odilon Redon Quote: “Nothing in Art is achieved by will alone. It is achieved by docilely submitting to the subconscious.”

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

— Odilon Redon

Odilon Redon Quote: “I have placed there a little door opening on to the mysterious. I have made stories.”

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

— Odilon Redon

Odilon Redon Quote: “Artists who approach perfection do not have many ideas.”

11. “Artists who approach perfection do not have many ideas.”

— Odilon Redon

Odilon Redon Quote: “I await joyous surprises while working, an awakening of the materials that I work with and that my spirit develops.”

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

— Odilon Redon

Odilon Redon Quote: “One must respect black. Nothing prostitutes it.”

13. “One must respect black. Nothing prostitutes it.”

— Odilon Redon

Odilon Redon Quote: “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.”

14. “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

Odilon Redon Quote: “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.”

15. “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

Odilon Redon Quote: “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.”

16. “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

Odilon Redon Quote: “The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit.”

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

— Odilon Redon

Odilon Redon Quote: “It is precisely from the regret left by the imperfect work that the next one can be born.”

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

— Odilon Redon

Odilon Redon Quote: “When I am alone, I love the wide roads. There, I have conversations with myself. My free steps move easily and my body leaves my spirit free of obstacles; it discourses, it reasons, it presses me with questions.”

19. “When I am alone, I love the wide roads. There, I have conversations with myself. My free steps move easily and my body leaves my spirit free of obstacles; it discourses, it reasons, it presses me with questions.”

— Odilon Redon

Odilon Redon Quote: “Nobody will enter into your hopes: dreams, desires, projects are weak and solitary abstractions that nobody will formulate with us. In his aspirations toward the future or beyond it, man is unhappy because he is alone, all that he sees, all that he is, makes him suffer, except for what he loves. If I ahd a son to direct, I would tell him: ‘Leave, go alone in the midst of men since you must become one of them. The individual soars only in liberty.”

20. “Nobody will enter into your hopes: dreams, desires, projects are weak and solitary abstractions that nobody will formulate with us. In his aspirations toward the future or beyond it, man is unhappy because he is alone, all that he sees, all that he is, makes him suffer, except for what he loves. If I ahd a son to direct, I would tell him: ‘Leave, go alone in the midst of men since you must become one of them. The individual soars only in liberty.”

— Odilon Redon

Odilon Redon Quote: “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.”

21. “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

Odilon Redon Quote: “I am certain about what I will never do – but not about what my art will render.”

22. “I am certain about what I will never do – but not about what my art will render.”

— Odilon Redon

Odilon Redon Quote: “It is nature also who orders us to obey the gifts she has given us. Mine have led me to dreams; I submitted to the torments of imagination and the surprises she gave me under my pencil; but I directed and led those surprises in accordance with the laws of the organism of art which I know, which I feel, with the single goal of producing in the spectator, by sudden attraction, the whole evocation, and the whole enticement of the uncertain within the confines of thought.”

23. “It is nature also who orders us to obey the gifts she has given us. Mine have led me to dreams; I submitted to the torments of imagination and the surprises she gave me under my pencil; but I directed and led those surprises in accordance with the laws of the organism of art which I know, which I feel, with the single goal of producing in the spectator, by sudden attraction, the whole evocation, and the whole enticement of the uncertain within the confines of thought.”

— Odilon Redon

Odilon Redon Quote: “It is difficult to judge one’s contemporaries; perhaps it is impossible to understand them.”

24. “It is difficult to judge one’s contemporaries; perhaps it is impossible to understand them.”

— Odilon Redon

Odilon Redon Quote: “I venerate with emotion everything that comes from the heart when it is simple, silent and confident. It is a sensual pleasure, subtle and touching, to try to reach characters through the varied outer appearances of human conditions.”

25. “I venerate with emotion everything that comes from the heart when it is simple, silent and confident. It is a sensual pleasure, subtle and touching, to try to reach characters through the varied outer appearances of human conditions.”

— Odilon Redon

Odilon Redon Quote: “If the art of an artist is the song of his life, a grave of sad melody, I must have sounded the note of gaiety in color.”

26. “If the art of an artist is the song of his life, a grave of sad melody, I must have sounded the note of gaiety in color.”

— Odilon Redon

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