The Artist submits from day to day to the fatal rhythm of the impulses of the universal world which encloses him, continual centre of sensations, always pliant, hypnotized by the marvels of nature which he loves, he scrutinizes. His eyes, like his soul, are in perpetual communion with the most fortuitous of phenomena.
Michael Wilson, Odilon Redon (1978). “Nature and Imagination: The Work of Odilon Redon”, Phaidon Press