Odilon Quotes & Sayings

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

Artists who approach perfection do not have many ideas. — Odilon Redon

I have tried to put the real at the service of the unreal. — Odilon Redon

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

Hold Everything Dear — John Berger

Get it. I, of course, had to stay in my push-up — Chris Kyle

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

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

When things happen involved thought & feelings, ask Allah to protect and show us the real path. — A.E.

While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality ... true art lies in a reality that is felt. — Odilon Redon

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

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

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

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

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

But despite its shared nature, language is also dangerous, a potentially isolating enterprise. Not all players are equal. In fact, Wittgenstein was by no means always a successful participant himself, frequently experiencing extreme difficulty in communication and expression. In an essay on fear and public language, the critic Rei Terada describes a scene repeated throughout Wittgenstein's life, in which he would begin to stammer while attempting to address a group of colleagues. Eventually, his stuttering would give way to a tense silence, during which he would struggle mutely with his thoughts, gesticulating all the while with his hands, as if he was still speaking audibly. — Olivia Laing

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

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

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

He stops pacing and turns toward me. You won't wait for me. I won't let you give up what should be the best year of your life. I had to grow up way too fast; I'm not taking that away from you, too. It wouldn't be fair. I don't want you to wait for me, Layken. — Colleen Hoover

Death is every mortal's shadow, his true shadow, and time is its servant, spinning that shadow slowly round, until what stretched behind one now stretches before him. — Steven Erikson

Of course he wouldn't hesitate before trying something that had never been done before. He was Vlad Tepesh. How could he fail? — Jeaniene Frost

For a second I thought about saying, Yes, please, let's catch the next ferry out of this freak show. — Rachel Hawkins

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

The Artist submits from day to day to the fatal rhythm of the impulses of the universal world which encloses him, continual centre of sensations, always pliant, hypnotized by the marvels of nature which he loves, he scrutinizes. His eyes, like his soul, are in perpetual communion with the most fortuitous of phenomena. — Odilon Redon

More recently, my father has been impressed with how Billy basically started at the bottom of Payton Mills and has worked himself up to South East Region Vice President."

Cletus frowned. "Is that his title?"

"My father thinks so. And he's certain Billy wants to run for state senate. Both my parents like the idea of having a son-in-law in politics. I think that's why they like Jackson so much. I know he has plans to run for office."

"Jackson would make a great politician."

"I thought you didn't like Jackson?"

"I don't. Saying someone would make a great politician is like saying someone would make a great serial killer. It's not a compliment. — Penny Reid

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

Raising funds for my fourth expedition proved to be very difficult. — Louis Leakey

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

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

Education is nice, but talent's much better. Find your inner talent and put it to work. — Tassa Desalada

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. — Odilon Redon

I have a feeling only for shadows — Odilon Redon

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

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

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

Real love is when you are completely committed to someone even when they are being completely unlovable. — Dave Willis

In fact, the fairies had turned him into a water-baby.
A water-baby? You never heard of a water-baby. Perhaps not. That is the very reason why this story was written.
( ... )
"But there are no such things as water-babies."
How do you know that? Have you been there to see? And if you had been there to see, and had seen none, that would not prove that there were none. If Mr. Garth does not find a fox in Eversley Wood - as folks sometimes fear he never will - that does not prove that there are no such things as foxes. And as is Eversley Wood to all the woods in England, so are the waters we know to all the waters in the world. And no one has a right to say that no water-babies exist, till they have seen no water-babies existing; which is quite a different thing, mind, from not seeing water-babies; and a thing which nobody ever did, or perhaps ever will do. — Charles Kingsley