"I have designed a decorative and monumental work as a group of subjects representing the three ages of sacred and pro…"

"No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, because I believe …"

"This bored fantastic woman, with her animal nature, giving herself the pleasure of seeing her enemy struck down, not …"

"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."

"I have never looked for dream in reality or reality in dream. I have allowed my imagination free play, and I have not…"

"I am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract. The expression of human feelin…"

"One would have to coin a word for the occasion if one wished to characterise the talent of Gustave Moreau, the word c…"

"..that distinguished aesthete [Gustave Moreau] who paints nothing than rubbish, it is because his dreams are suggeste…"

"He didn't set his pupils on the right road, he took them off it. He made them uneasy.. .He didn't show us how to pain…"

"My discovery, at the age of sixteen, of the Gustave Moreau museum influenced forever my idea of love... Beauty and lo…"