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

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… When I want to render these fine nuances, I do not find them in the subject, but in the nature of women in real life who seek unhealthy emotions and are too stupid even to understand the horror in the most appalling situations.

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.

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...