“Sometimes, when one is moving silently through such an utterly desolate landscape, an overwhelming hallucination can make one feel that oneself, as an individual human being, is slowly being unraveled. The surrounding space is so vast that it becomes increasingly difficult to keep a balanced grip on one’s own being. The mind swells out to fill the entire landscape, becoming so diffuse in the process that one loses the ability to keep it fastened to the physical self. The sun would rise from the eastern horizon, and cut it’s way across the empty sky, and sink below the western horizon. This was the only perceptible change in our surroundings. And in the movement of the sun, I felt something I hardly know how to name: some huge, cosmic love.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

Peyrelebade Landscape, 1869
Odilon Redon

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Painting
Odilon Redon – 1840-1916
I saw above the misty outline of a human form – 1896

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“La Folie”

Odilon Redon
“A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?”
Albert Einstein

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In my Dreams… (Hommage a Goya)

Odilon Redon

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No. 1
The wall of his room was opening up, and from the crack a death’s head was projected.

Odilon Redon

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No. 1
The wall of his room was opening up, and from the crack a death’s head was projected.

Odilon Redon

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Guardian Spirit of the Water

Odilon Redon

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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.

Odilon Redon

Apparition

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LA CHIMARE ~ ODILON REDON

“All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.”

Elias Canetti

Elias Canetti ( Bulgarian: Елиас Канети; 25 July 1905–14 August 1994) was a Bulgarian-born novelist and non-fiction writer of Sephardi-Jewish ancestry who wrote in German. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981.

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