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“L'artiste vient à la vie pour un accomplissement qui est mystérieux. Il est un accident. Rien ne l’attend dans le monde social.”

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“Il faut respecter le noir. Rien ne le prostitue.”

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Odilon Redon: Citations en anglais

“The artist lives only day by day, and is the recipient of the things that surround him; he transposes sensations from outside, according to what the fate reserves him, but transforms them relentlessly and tenaciously, in a manner determined by him alone.”

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in Confidences of an artist (1894) published posthumously in Paris in 1922 as part of the book of memoirs To himself; as quoted by Paul Westheim in Confessions of Artists - Letters, Memoirs and Observations of Contemporary Artists, Propyläen Publishing House, Berlin, 1925: p. 82

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

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Quoted in Jean-François Guillou, Great Paintings of the World (2000), p. 190.