Gustave Moreau Quotes

I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract.

I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract. The expression of human feelings and the passions of man certainly interest me deeply, but I am less concerned with expressing the motions of the soul and mind than to render visible, so to speak, the inner flashes of intuition which have something divine in their apparent insignificance and reveal magic, even divine horizons, when they are transposed into the marvellous effects of pure plastic art.

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.

Nature is simply the opportunity for the artist to express himself.

Color must be thought, imagined, dreamed.

I believe only in what I do not see.

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.

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.

Think colour! Know how to imagine it!