Gustave Moreau quotes
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“I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract.”
-- Gustave MoreauSource : "Gustave Moreau". Book by Jean Paladilhe and Josbe Pierrep, translated by Bettina Wadia, p. 32, 1972.
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“Color must be thought, imagined, dreamed.”
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“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.”
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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 MoreauSource : "Gustave Moreau". Book by Jean Paladilhe and Josbe Pierrep, translated by Bettina Wadia, p.62, en.wikiquote.org. 1972.
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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.”
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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 MoreauSource : "The Many Faces of Gustave Moreau" by Bennett Schiff, August 1999.
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“Nature is simply the opportunity for the artist to express himself.”
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“I believe only in what I do not see.”
-- Gustave MoreauSource : Gustave Moreau (1977). “Gustave Moreau: Complete Edition of the Finished Paintings, Water-colours and Drawings”
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“In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.”
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“Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.”
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Source : Angie Sage (2012). “Physik: Septimus Heap”, p.149, A&C Black
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“The abstract has no emotional content... the abstract is more powerful the more abstract it is.”
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