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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

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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 am dominated by one thing, an irresistible, burning attraction towards the abstract.

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Sleep, though sad] is gentler than tears which, though painful, are gentler than death.

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.

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.

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