Odilon Redon Quotes

When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.

I have had three masters, Nature, Velasquez, and Rembrandt.

Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.

To draw true beauty shows a master's hand.

Begin by learning to draw and paint like the old masters. After that, you can do as you like; everyone will respect you.

Think colour! Know how to imagine it!

About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters.

The soul of music slumbers in the shell Till waked and kindled by the master's spell; And feeling hearts, touch them but rightly, pour A thousand melodies unheard before!

There are not more than five primary colours, yet in combination they produce more hues than can ever been seen.

Don't only practise your art, but force your way into its secrets.

Colour is always a consequence, never a cause.

In love as in art, good technique helps.

The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to its inner meaning.

Ah, Manet has come very, very close to it and Courbet - the marrying of form and colour.

He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposter.

There is more to creative mastership than the surface of satisfaction and political certainty. The music of Joe Fonda is part of a living tradition of belief and dedication. Future historians will be surprised at the breadth of Mr. Fonda's offerings. This is a real virtuoso and composer of the highest order.

If you go to a master to study and learn the techniques, you diligently follow all the instructions the master puts upon you. But then comes the time for using the rules in your own way and not being bound by them....You can actually forget the rules because they have been assimilated. You are an artist. Your own innocence now is of one who has become an artist, who has been, as it were, transmuted.... You can't have creativity unless you leave behind the bounded, the fixed, all the rules.

Every master knows that the material teaches the artist.

Color is crucial in painting, but it is very hard to talk about.

Oh yes! he loved yellow, this good Vincent, this painter from Holland - those glimmers of sunlight rekindled his soul, that abhorred the fog, that needed the warmth.

Every hue throughout your work is altered by every touch you add in other places.

Don't be carried off your feet by anything because it is modern - the latest thing. Go to the Louvre often and spend a good deal of time before the Rembrandts, the Delacroixs.

Harmony of colouring is destructive of art? it is like the smile of a fool.

Individuality realized is the supreme attainment of the human soul, the master-master's work of art. Individuality is sacred.

Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.