Gustave Moreau Quotes

April 6, 1826 – April 18, 1898

Gustave Moreau (6 April 1826 – 18 April 1898) was a French Symbolist painter, famous for his illustration of biblical and mythological figures.

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I believe neither in what I touch nor what I see. I only believe in what I do not see, and solely in what I feel.

As quoted at the J. Paul Getty Museum

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I have never looked for dream in reality or reality in dream. I have allowed my imagination free play, and I have not been led astray by it.

Gustave Moreau
— As quoted in "The Many Faces of Gustave Moreau" by Bennett Schiff in Smithsonian magazine (August 1999)

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No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, because I believe that this world is nothing but a dream...

Gustave Moreau
— p 62

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