Odilon Redon in his own words:
My drawings inspire, and are not to be
defined. They place us, as does music, in the
ambiguous.
I await joyous surprises while working, an
awakening of the materials that I work with
and that my spirit develops.
I have a feeling only for shadows.
It is precisely from the regret left by the
imperfect work that the next one can be born.
The artist yields often to the stimuli of
materials that will transmit his spirit.
My originality consists in putting the logic of
the visible to the service of the invisible.
Art can never support the propaganda of a
belief or cult.