"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."

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Source : Roseline Bacou, Odilon Redon (1987). “Odilon Redon: pastels”, George Braziller

Odilon Redon

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“It is a marvellous thing to be physically a woman if only to know the marvels of a man.”
“Beginning of all knowledge comes from humility.”
“Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.”

Source : "A man who won't forget Ray Bradbury" by Neil Gaiman, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2012.
“I live in a kind of controlled awareness. I wouldn't call it fear, but it's an awareness. I know I have a responsibility to behave in a certain way. I'm able to do that.”
“I want to be who I am now. I rock my gray hair because it is a blessing. I colored mine for many years, but I've gotten compliments from so many men and women about being brave enough to sport the gray. I even wear it on the cover of my record. I am comfortable in my skin and I want listeners to feel that as well.”
“Don't call me, I'll call you... I'm out.”
“All the fun is locking horns with impossibilities.”
“I felt grand juries were illegal and coercive.”

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