Odilon Redon Citas

• True art lies in a reality that is felt.

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  Arte, Mentira, Realidad

  Jodi Hauptman, Odilon Redon (2005). “Beyond the visible: the art of Odilon Redon”, The Museum of Modern Art

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

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  Arte, Mentira, Realidad

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• Mi originalidad consiste en poner la lógica de lo visible al servicio de lo invisible.

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  Originality, Logic, Invisible

  Odilon Redon, Pablo Picasso, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1952). “Redon, drawings and lithographs: Museum of Modern Art, N.Y., [Feb. 14-April 20, 1952]”

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• Mis dibujos inspiran y no se pueden definir. Nos sitúan, como la música, en el ambiguo reino de lo indeterminado.

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  Drawing, Inspire, Doe

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• Nothing in Art is achieved by will alone. It is achieved by docilely submitting to the subconscious.

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  Art, Achievement, Art Is

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• 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.

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  Running, Exercise, Next Day

  Roseline Bacou, Odilon Redon (1987). “Odilon Redon: pastels”, George Braziller

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• I have placed there a little door opening on to the mysterious. I have made stories.

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  Doors, Stories, Littles

  Michael Wilson, Odilon Redon (1978). “Nature and Imagination: The Work of Odilon Redon”, Phaidon Press

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

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  Regret, Next, Imperfect

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• Like music my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate.

  Odilon Redon

  Drawing, World, Ambiguous

  "Great Paintings of the World". Book by Jean-François Guillou, p. 190, 2000.

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

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  Awakening, Spirit, Surprise

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• 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.

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  Eye, Artist, Soul

  Michael Wilson, Odilon Redon (1978). “Nature and Imagination: The Work of Odilon Redon”, Phaidon Press

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• I have a feeling only for shadows

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  Feelings, Shadow

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• Artists who approach perfection do not have many ideas.

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  Artist, Ideas, Perfection

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

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  Art, Lying, Moral

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

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  Heart, Voice

  Quoted in Edward Lucie-Smith Symbolist Art (1972).

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

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  Art, Pain, Looks

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• One must respect black. Nothing prostitutes it.

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  Color, Negro

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• La buena obra procede con tenacidad, intención, sin interrupción, con igual medida de pasión y razón y debe superar aquella meta que el artista se ha propuesto.

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  Passion, Artist, Goal

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• 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.

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  Ideas, Ropa, Dar

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• I am certain about what I will never do - but not about what my art will render.

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  Art, Conviction, Certain

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

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  Fashion, Law, Giving

  Quoted in Edward Lucie-Smith Symbolist Art (1972).

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• The artist yields often to the stimuli of materials that will transmit his spirit.

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  Artist, Yield, Spirit

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

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  Judging, Understanding, Impossible

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

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  Soul, Fundamentals, Masters

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