Art Nouveau Style

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

    Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.
    F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

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

    To translate, one must have a style of his own, for otherwise the translation will have no rhythm or nuance, which come from the process of artistically thinking through and molding the sentences; they cannot be reconstituted by piecemeal imitation. The problem of translation is to retreat to a simpler tenor of one’s own style and creatively adjust this to one’s author.
    Paul Goodman (1911–1972)