Odilon Redon Quotes

Art is the most beautiful of all lies.

Art is the skin of the soul.

Individuals have to find a place to experience a profundity of feeling, and art is a means to that.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

Art is freedom. If we don't have that element, we don't feel human anymore. Art is not decoration or a function. Before all that, art is art. This connection to meaning - our inner, intuitive knowledge - is something.

Art, I've always believed, is more real than life.

Art is what defines us, what makes us human.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

True artistic expression lies in conveying emotion.

The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.

Human requirements are the inspiration for art.

Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

I paint to evoke a changing language of symbols, a language with which to remark upon the qualities of our mysterious capacities which direct us toward ultimate reality.

What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

Art is spiritual.

Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

For me art and chess are closely related, both are forms in which the self finds beauty and expression.

Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.

The arts are beyond price; they're beyond value. They're of incalculable worth in what it means to be a human being.

If I go into a studio and find my truth of the moment, there are a number of people in the world who can relate to what I'm saying and are going to buy into what I'm doing. Not because it's the new thing of the moment, but because it's genuine emotion. Its how I feel. This is how I articulate the world.

Art is truth.

The arts are so important not only to society but to ourselves as human beings. It keeps in touch with our own humanity. So access to the arts in any way, shape, or form is vital.

Movies have an enormous power to open the mind and the heart and everything. You are sitting and seeing something moving in front of you, and then your mind goes into a trance. You are completely there. It's a real great art; it's not only a business. It's to open the mind, to understand this mystery within reality. This is why we need it.