Quote of the day
One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
Odilon Redon
Born: April 20, 1840
Died: July 6, 1916 (aged 76)
Bio: Odilon Redon was a French symbolist painter, printmaker, draughtsman and pastellist.
Known for:
- The Cyclops (1914)
- Closed Eyes (1890)
- The Chariot of Apollo (1908)
- Ophelia among the Flowers (1908)
- Angel in Chains (1875)
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