Quotes about Decoration

Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration. Votes: 4

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. Votes: 4

Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper. Votes: 4

Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms. Votes: 4

But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live. Votes: 4

Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away. Votes: 4

The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament. Votes: 4

I think taking design out of the studio and really having a relationship with the people that you're making it for really convinced me of how powerful a thing design is. It's not just an aesthetic decoration. Votes: 4

A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration. Votes: 4

Decoration is just make-up for the wrinkles of the idea. Votes: 3

Practice design, Not Decoration: Don't just make pretty talking points. Instead, display information in a way that makes complex information clear. Votes: 3

Decoration is really about creating a quality of life, and a beauty in that life that nourishes the soul, that makes life beautiful. Votes: 3

Decoration is asked to be 'merely' pleasing, 'merely' embellishing, and the 'functional' logic of Modernism leaves no room, apparently, for such 'mereness.' This is part of the pity of Modernism, one of the sacrifices it enjoins... Votes: 3

Music is interior decoration. Votes: 2

I'm just not very interested in decoration. Votes: 2

Interior decoration partly thrives on being social. Votes: 2

I've never used ethnic music as decoration for profit. Votes: 2

Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration. Votes: 2

A formally harmonious product needs no decoration; it should be elevated through pure form. Votes: 2

After the design is firmly fixed, the decoration is added. Decorating is the final enhancement. Votes: 2

Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration. Votes: 2

A Christian should resemble a fruit tree with real fruit, not a Christmas tree with decorations tied on Votes: 2

I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration. Votes: 2

I always think of music as interior decoration. So, if you have all kinds of music, you are fully decorated! Votes: 2

There are schools teaching 'stage decoration' as a subject, and they actually call it that. I say: 'Burn those schools!' Votes: 2

I love Christmas, not just because of the presents but because of all the decorations and lights and the warmth of the season. Votes: 2

I like interior decoration, so I might do something in that. I might, at some point, take two years off to study interior decoration. Votes: 2

I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving. Votes: 2

If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration. Votes: 2

That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,-- Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man. Votes: 2

An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an indolent attention in the audience. Votes: 2

Architecture is the beginning of something because it's - if you're not involved in first principles, if you're not involved in the absolute, the beginning of that generative process, it's cake decoration. Votes: 2

I have a love for colorful things. I'm a fashion maximalist. I come from the school of people who look at the decoration in Marie Antoinette's bedroom, and think 'Why so reserved?' Votes: 2

We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness. Votes: 2

With its fluctuating forms and needless decoration, fashion epitomizes the supposedly unproductive waste that inspired 20th-century technocrats to dream of central planning. It exists for no good reason. But that's practically a definition of art. Votes: 2

I never played the 'decoration,' I always played the one who suffered. And then I got very lucky in my middle career, when I started playing the hero, which at that point was quite rare for women. Votes: 2

There is no society ever discovered in the remotest corner of the world that has not had something that we would consider the arts. Visual arts - decoration of surfaces and bodies - appears to be a human universal. Votes: 2

Before World War II, Modernist architects sometimes had to resort to custom fabrication or outright fakery to achieve the machine imagery advocated by the Bauhaus after its initial, Expressionist, phase. Stucco masqueraded as reinforced concrete; rivets were used for decoration. Votes: 2

Once you find out that someone likes a certain game on Facebook, now you know what kind of virtual gift you can get them. You can send them a little decoration. Social games give you goals where you can help and reward your friends. Votes: 2

The modern scene in decoration is not a unified or controlled one. The unified control of the arts during the reign of Louis XIV no longer exists; today the designer is free to achieve a wider variety and more personal approach to the interior. Votes: 2

You couldn't define the '80s when the '80s were happening. We kept changing. We had shoulder pads, then we didn't. It was revealing, and then it was decoration. It was a lot of things at once. It was defined when it was over. Votes: 2

The first purpose of clothes... was not warmth or decency, but ornament.... Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries. Votes: 2

When, during the Second World War, the island of Malta came through three terrible years of bombardment and destruction, it was rightly awarded the George Medal for bravery: today Israel should be awarded a similar decoration for defending democracy, tolerance and Western values against a murderous onslaught that has lasted twenty times as long. Votes: 2

For people like me, books are something solid and real, whereas digital stuff is a bit more ethereal. I like the trophy on my shelf, the presence in my home. A nice book is just as valuable as a decoration as a beautiful porcelain urn - and, let's face it, a hell of a lot more useful. Votes: 2

When I was little, I went to the Sahara desert and met an older woman with beautiful earrings that came all the way down to her stomach. She told me, 'For us Tuareg, jewelry is not meant for decoration. It absorbs negative energy that comes your way.' So think twice when you buy a vintage ring! Votes: 2

Usually in theater, the visual repeats the verbal. The visual dwindles into decoration. But I think with my eyes. For me, the visual is not an afterthought, not an illustration of the text. If it says the same thing as the words, why look? The visual must be so compelling that a deaf man would sit though the performance fascinated. Votes: 2

Content informs design; design without content is decoration. Votes: 0

A composer's job involves the decoration of fragments of time. Votes: 0

Audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure. Votes: 0

The Gospel is not reformation, decoration or renovation. It is liberation. Votes: 0

What is art? It is not decoration. It is the re-living of experience. Votes: 0

It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. Votes: 0

Do you think that the Lord gave them to me for a decoration? Votes: 0

I only like decoration if it plays second to the architecture of a dress, Votes: 0

Prayer is not a pious decoration of life but the breath of human existence. Votes: 0

Humorists of the 'mere' sort cannot survive. Humor is only a fragrance, a decoration. Votes: 0

A formally harmonious product needs no decoration, it should be elevated through pure form, Votes: 0

An important question to ask is, 'Where and when did decoration and utility first meet? Votes: 0

The mask means to me: freshness of color, sumptuous decoration, wild unexpected gestures, very shrill expressions, exquisite turbulence. Votes: 0

You might be a redneck if an expired license plate means another decoration for your living room wall. Votes: 0

No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy. Votes: 0

I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague. Votes: 0

The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help. Votes: 0

[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling. Votes: 0

Painting isn't made for the decoration of apartments; it is a weapon to be used offensively and defensively against the enemy. Votes: 0

Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty. Votes: 0

Yet he saw that in all places there was originality, resulting from the human efforts at decoration and ingenious methods of survival. Votes: 0

I was painting furniture, learning to stencil, and explore all kinds of traditional techniques of decoration. I learned from books that I picked up. Votes: 0

My pockets had always puzzled Weena, but at the last she had concluded that they were an eccentric kind of vase for floral decoration. Votes: 0

Clothes should never be decoration....whe n someone feels at peace with the clothes, they feel more seductive, more desirable, more sensual, more everything. Votes: 0

I've been collecting crystals for many, many years for healing purposes and decoration. I guess since my name is Crystal, I have no choice. Votes: 0

Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that is celebrated with champagne...Oh no! It's a...long distance race, quite solitary and very exhausting. Votes: 0

Being a winner is more than getting a first place trophy, it is acting like the effort was an honour and the trophy is just a decoration. Votes: 0

You create your own decoration. You choose your color, you choose your mood. ... If you are depressed, you put some bright yellow and suddenly you are happy. Votes: 0

Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament. Votes: 0

I learned about the sacred art of self decoration with the monarch butterflies perched atop my head, lightning bugs as my night jewelry, and emerald-green frogs as bracelets. Votes: 0

I would prefer to have one comfortable room well stocked with books to all you could give me in the way of decoration which the highest art could supply. Votes: 0

Your body's always going through changes. It's fattening or thinning or wrinkling or blotching, and the only thing you really have control over is putting some decoration on it. Votes: 0

It is also absolutely correct that some British folk customs have descended directly from pagan rituals, such ... the giving of presents and decoration of homes with greenery at midwinter. Votes: 0

There are only a few bits of absolute knowledge in the world, people can learn only one or two fundamental facts about each other, the rest is decoration and prejudice. Votes: 0

Not every oak has to be gnarled, every detective hard-bitten. The adjective that exists solely as a decoration is a self-indulgence for the writer and an obstacle for the reader. Votes: 0

Spurn everything that is added by way of decoration and display by unneccesary labour. Relect that nothing merits admiration except the spirit, the impressiveness of which prevents it from being impressed by anything. Votes: 0

It's as though aesthetic value, quality, could be preserved only by concentrating on 'absolute' or 'autonomous' art: thus on visual art... that held and moved and stirred the beholder as sheer decoration could not. Votes: 0