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

Death was not a door you could open and close at will. — Valery G. Olsen

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

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

We are all lost souls until we are found. — Kate McGahan

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

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

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

You let go of fear by focusing on love. Love is the answer to fear. — Tama Kieves

I have a feeling only for shadows — Odilon Redon

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

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

No matter how far and where to birds may fly, they never lose their way and always find their way back home — Anamika Mishra

Images have been reproached for being a way of watching suffering at a distance, as if there were some other way of watching. — Susan Sontag

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

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

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

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

Christendom has done away with Christianity without being quite aware of it. — Soren Kierkegaard

Language is a tool for communicating and not a barrier to writing — Bernard Kelvin Clive

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

I'm clawing at something that doesn't want me. And to say goodbye is like severing a part of me that I can't easily replace. — Krista Ritchie

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

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

I love melodrama. I love the simple fact. When you read Euripides he's a page turner. It's like reading a Mexican comic book romance. — Guy Maddin

All we do is sign great teams, and stay out of the way. The rest will take care of itself. — Mike Wilson

Do not allow watching food to replace making food. — Alton Brown

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

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

The major difference between the big shot and the little shot is the big shot is just a little shot who kept on shooting. — Zig Ziglar

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

as I hardly know where I am, with what — George Eliot

All epoch-making revolutionary events have been produced not by the written, but by the spoken word. — Adolf Hitler

It's like if the music is loud enough I won't be able to listen to my own thoughts. — Nic Sheff