" When I build a house, when I design furniture or carve, I think of the splendor offered us by the universe, in which beauty appears in perpetual variety. Neither parallelism, nor symmetry; forms are engendered by ever-differing movements; you have an impression of unity achieved by infinite variety. And what decorative scheme could be finer, more intoxicating?
Then consider just one of these plants which, assembled in masses, make a forest; see how each tree, each bush, differs from its' neighbors: not one branch resembling another; no two flowers alike. And what a lesson for the architect, who knows how to look at this admirable repertory of forms and colors! As for construction, isn't it the branches of trees, and the stalks of plants, now rigid, now sinuous, which furnish us with models?"
-Hector Guimard, Art Nouveau Architect
