Art Nouveau Motifs

Famous quotes containing the words art, nouveau and/or motifs:

    “O thou weed!
    Who art so lovely fair and smell’st so sweet
    That the sense aches at thee, would thou hadst ne’er been born!”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.”
    —Salvador Dali (1904–1989)

    “The poetic act consists of suddenly seeing that an idea splits up into a number of equal motifs and of grouping them; they rhyme.”
    —Stéphane Mallarmé (1842–1898)