Gustave Moreau

“My art is an art of sums and synthesis, not of analysis.”

“The more the arts develop the more they depend on each other.”

“I am a lover of arabesque, and it is the most synthetic of all forms.”

“I am the bridge over which some men will pass.”

“A great artist is a man who is the master of his own style.”

“I believe only in what I do not see and solely in what I feel.”

“Art is the relentless pursuit of the expression of inner feeling.”

“Color must be thought, dreamed, imagined.”

“The evocation of thought by lines and colors, that is my aim and my art.”

“I have never looked for dream in reality or reality in dream. I have allowed my imagination to be my only guide.”

“Nature in itself is nothing! It is only an occasion for the artist to express himself.”

“You must think of the plastic transcription of a dream, not the dream itself.”