Gustave Moreau
1823-1898
French Symbolist Painter
His Style Was Influenced by the following Painters and Art movements - Mantegna, Titian, Michelangelo, Raphael, Caravaggio and Sodoma
Education - studied under François-Edouard Picot and later with Théodore Chassériau (the two men were life long lovers)
Cause of Death - Pneumonia, He is buried in world famous Cimetière de Montmartre in Paris, France.
Gustav Moreau Quotations
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... ~ Gustav Moreau Quote
The artist is a
bridge from what is observable and familiar toward what is unfathomable
and censored. ~ Gustav Moreau Quote
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 marvelous effects of pure plastic art. -- Gustav Moreau Quote
Without free will, art remains bound by the chains imposed by the clergy. Imagination must be permitted to take wing and fly as the stout pigeon in the park flutters in the garden of magnificence and finally lunacy. ~ Gustav Moreau Quote
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