Odilon Redon
Odilon Redon was a Symbolist painter, born in Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France.
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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.
- Like music my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate.