“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.”

— Gustave Moreau

As quoted in "The Many Faces of Gustave Moreau" by Bennett Schiff in Smithsonian magazine (August 1999) http://www.smithsonianmagazine.com/issues/1999/august/moreau.php

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