Odilon Redon

Odilon Redon (22 April 1840 – 6 July 1916) was a Symbolist painter, born in Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France.

Quotes of Odilon Redon

 * Like music my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate.
 * Quoted in Jean-François Guillou, Great Paintings of the World (2000), p. 190.


 * The artist lives only day by day, and is the recipient of the things that surround him; he transposes sensations from outside, according to what the fate reserves him, but transforms them relentlessly and tenaciously, in a manner determined by him alone.
 * in Confidences of an artist (1894) published posthumously in Paris in 1922 as part of the book of memoirs To himself; as quoted by Paul Westheim in Confessions of Artists - Letters, Memoirs and Observations of Contemporary Artists, Propyläen Publishing House, Berlin, 1925: p. 82