Art Nouveau Quotes

Art Nouveau got its inspiration from nature. The Bauhaus got its inspiration from engineering.

I like the transience of Klimt paintings.

Most of my influences are turn-of-the-century.

It was her first book, an indigo cover with a silver moonflower, an art nouveau flower, I traced my finger along the silver line like smoke, whiplash curves. ... I touched the pages her hands touched, I pressed them to my lips, the soft thick old paper, yellow now, fragile as skin. I stuck my nose between the bindings and smelled all the readings she had given, the smell of unfiltered cigarettes and the espresso machine, beaches and incense and whispered words in the night. I could hear her voice rising from the pages. The cover curled outward like sails.

I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.

On inspection, Gaudi's architecture isn't whimsical at all.

In 1912, when I was working in The Hague, I first saw a drawing by Louis Sullivan of one of his buildings. It interested me.

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

My aesthetic is I love anything in the late 1800s, early 1900s.

When I look back now, it must have been like Paris was at the time of Le Sacre du Printemps.

I live in the Dark Ages, the 17th century. Actually, I would have loved to be in Paris in the early 20th century when the Ballets Russes were there and Chanel was designing.

My influences were from Europe from between 1900 and 1945. My favorite artists were Egon Schiele or Edvard Munch. I wasn't interested in contemporary art at all.

I really appreciate artists of the 20th century, and I can see a lot of their influence on my work, but to suggest that my design only fits within an 'ism' kind of bothers me.