Gustave Moreau famous quotes

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

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Color must be thought, imagined, dreamed.
-- Gustave Moreau

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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.
-- Gustave Moreau

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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

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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.
-- Gustave Moreau

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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

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Think colour! Know how to imagine it!
-- Gustave Moreau

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Nature is simply the opportunity for the artist to express himself.
-- Gustave Moreau

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I believe only in what I do not see.
-- Gustave Moreau

#Believe #I Believe

I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it; ...This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me; for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, and bounded it south, and bounded it east, and bounded it west.
Some men are born husbands; they have a passion for domesticity, for a fireside, for a home. Yet, curiously, these men very rarely stay at home. Apparently what they want is to have a place to get away from.
Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given.
In a burning building I would save a cat before a Rembrandt.
Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.
How well I know with what burning intensity you live. You have experienced many lives already, including several you have shared with me- full rich lives from birth to death, and you just have to have these rest periods in between.
He was not used to the smell of dragon breath, which is best described as a combination of the stench of burning rubber and the stink of old socks, with overtones of a hamster cage in dire need of a cleaning.
Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
The process by which civilization, as an abstract entity distinct from the societies in which it is embodied, dies or is reborn is a very significant one.
The abstract has no emotional content... the abstract is more powerful the more abstract it is.

Gustave Moreau famous quotes

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