No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
You might be a redneck if an expired license plate means another decoration for your living room wall. — Jeff Foxworthy Copy Share Image
Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper. — Ettore Sottsass Copy Share Image
Humorists of the 'mere' sort cannot survive. Humor is only a fragrance, a decoration. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. — A. B. Simpson Copy Share Image
“Never be decieved by exterior decorations, some monsters go about on suit and tie and of course a Bible.” — Paul Bamikole Copy Share Image
You create your own decoration. You choose your color, you choose your mood. ... If you are depressed, you put some bright… — Philippe Starck Copy Share Image
People always ask me how I start a collection, and I tell them that I just look around. What am I tired… — Tom Ford Copy Share Image
Not every oak has to be gnarled, every detective hard-bitten. The adjective that exists solely as a decoration is a self-indulgence for… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
Painting isn't made for the decoration of apartments; it is a weapon to be used offensively and defensively against the enemy. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I think taking design out of the studio and really having a relationship with the people that you're making it for really… — Genevieve Gorder Copy Share Image
When I think about the reference to baroque, I'm most interested in how art was integrated into domestic life. That's why I… — Camille Henrot Copy Share Image
I get obsessed with decorations and decorating the house. I keep it tasteful outside, but when you get inside it is a… — Johnny Vegas Copy Share Image
So I very quickly stopped almost all decoration. I was interested in the three-dimensional form of the pots, but my decoration was… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
Once you find out that someone likes a certain game on Facebook, now you know what kind of virtual gift you can… — Bing Gordon Copy Share Image
She surrounded herself with books at work and at home. Her living space was a testament to her first and abiding love… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“The wallpaper with which the men of science have covered the world of reality is falling to tatters. The grand whorehouse which… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
One never knows enough about characters in real life to put them into novels. One gets started and then, suddenly, one can… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
I love Halloween. It reminds me of my happy childhood days as a student at Wampus Elementary School in Armonk, N.Y., when… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Usually in theater, the visual repeats the verbal. The visual dwindles into decoration. But I think with my eyes. For me, the… — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
I am going in now for interior decoration. By that I mean supplying objets d'art and giving advice regarding the decoration of… — Elsie de Wolfe Copy Share Image
Candlesticks and incense not being portable into the maintop, the sailor perceives these decorations to be, on the whole, inessential to a… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“It is alright to decorate construction but never construct decoration.” — Pugin Augustus Welby Northmore Copy Share Image
I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
What is art? It is not decoration. It is the re-living of experience. — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Orders and decorations are necessary in order to dazzle the people. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I was painting furniture, learning to stencil, and explore all kinds of traditional techniques of decoration. I learned from books that I… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
It's toys, boy, all toys. You'll see more and more contraptions as you get older, but if I teach you anything, you'll… — Stefan Petrucha Copy Share Image
There is no society ever discovered in the remotest corner of the world that has not had something that we would consider… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
There are only a few bits of absolute knowledge in the world, people can learn only one or two fundamental facts about… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
“I would prefer to have one comfortable room well stocked with books to all you could give me in the way of… — John Bright Copy Share Image
Practice design, Not Decoration: Don't just make pretty talking points. Instead, display information in a way that makes complex information clear. — Nancy Duarte Copy Share Image
Your body's always going through changes. It's fattening or thinning or wrinkling or blotching, and the only thing you really have control… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Architecture is the beginning of something because it's - if you're not involved in first principles, if you're not involved in the… — Thom Mayne Copy Share Image
It is better decoration when, in painting, some monstrosity is introduced for variety and a relaxation of the senses and to attract… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
“[...] My pockets had always puzzled Weena, but at the last she had concluded that they were an eccentric kind of vase… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays… The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
There is no real need for decorations when throwing a barbecue party - let the summer garden, in all its vibrant and… — Pippa Middleton Copy Share Image