Gustave Moreau Quotes


"This bored fantastic woman, with her animal nature, giving herself the pleasure of seeing her enemy struck down, not a particularly keen one for her because she is so weary of having all her desires satisfied."
- Gustave Moreau
(Related: Nature, Enemy, Giving, Pleasure, Woman)

"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
(Related: Faith, Work, Dream, Importance, Man, Nothing, World)

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