The Art Nouveau Style Book of Alphonse Mucha

The manufacturers of fairy tales for grown-ups, realizing that after all it would be impossible to adorn the contemporary scene with sufficient frills, escaped into the past and returned from Greece or Byzantium, China or Italy, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, with their portfolios full of beautiful tales of love or adventure.

Let us open our portals wide to admit anyone who possesses the gift of moving us and charming us; let that man always be made welcome who is able to produce the mirage of a lovely dream in the midst of the sorrows and platitudes of our existence.