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I have designed a decorative and monumental work as a group of subjects representing the three ages of sacred and profane mythology: the Golden Age, the Silver Age and the Iron Age.

— Gustave Moreau Gustave Moreau (1972)

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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...

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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.

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