Wittgenstein dislikes all ornamentation that is not part…

“Wittgenstein was very much against women's suffrage for no particular reason except that 'all women he knows are such idiots'.”

— Ray Monk

“Wittgenstein's language has the singularly rare quality of being both colloquial and painstakingly precise.”

— Ray Monk

“Instead of teaching doctrines and developing theories, Wittgenstein came to think, a philosopher should demonstrate a technique, a method of achieving clarity.”

— Ray Monk

We want to create the purely organic building, boldly emanating its inner laws, free of untruths or ornamentation.

— Walter Gropius

“Ornamentation, festoons, carvings, cartouches, bas-reliefs, countless surprises among the sculptures - and the tones of the facades weathered by time and rain, the pinks…

— Georges Rodenbach

Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.

— John Ruskin

Science offends the modesty of all real women. It makes them feel as though it were an attempt to peek under their skin--or, worseyet,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation

— Frank Lloyd Wright

When I behold the passion for ornamentation, and the corresponding power, I feel as if women had so far shown what they are bad…

— Julia Ward Howe

In a very simple sense I want everything that's in a work to be there for the reason that it's needed. It's not an…

— Paul Cullen

The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity ... the ability to express the utmost with the minimum. It is the halfway cultivation that…

— Bruce Lee

A building without ornamentation is like a heaven without stars.

— George Sandys

Lack of ornamentation is a sign of spiritual strength.

— Adolf Loos

“I supposed that with her stunning beauty, she needed no ornamentation. It would have been like putting jewelry on a lion.”

— Sarah J. Maas

A design may be called organic when there is an harmonious organization of the parts within the whole, according to structure, material, and purpose.…

— Eliot Noyes