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Gustave Moreau

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He believed that, in order to produce art that signifies at the exalted level he envisaged, the painter must develop the "eyes of the soul and spirit as well as the body." Moreau associated this inner vision with the predominant role of the imagination; following current ideas, he apparently connected this faculty with "psychological penetration" and the unconscious.... Moreau wrote that his "greatest effort" was devoted to directing his imaginative energies, to channeling "this outpouring of oneself."
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Douglas W. Druick, in "Moreau's Symbolist Ideal" an essay used in the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibit Gustave Moreau: Between Epic and Dream (1999)

 
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