A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting more of… — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained as in the case of pleasure gardens, room… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
... it has always seemed to me that books are the supreme decorations of a room — Patrick O'Brian 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
The names of great painters are like passing-bells: in the name of Velasquez you hear sounded the fall of Spain; .in the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Alix [MacKenzie], on the other hand, found that her painting would translate much more readily into decoration, and she could play with… — Warren MacKenzie Copy Share Image
I think that all art is socially conscious. There is no alternative. Whatever we produce contains a political and social statement. There's… — Alfredo Jaar Copy Share Image
The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
But the helmet had gold decoration, and the bespoke armorers had made a new gleaming breastplate with useless gold ornamentation on it.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
An important question to ask is, 'Where and when did decoration and utility first meet? — Edward J. Fraughton Copy Share Image
When a scientist considers all high-tech mental machinery needed to arrange words into ordinary sentences, prescriptive rules are, at best, inconsequential little… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
You know, we love to categorise or label everything in our lives: people, movies. But I think that those are just the… — Hrithik Roshan 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
There is something about Christmas that requires a rug rat. Little kids make Christmas fun. I wonder if could rent one for… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
There are schools teaching 'stage decoration' as a subject, and they actually call it that. I say: 'Burn those schools!' — Robert Wilson Copy Share Image
I like interior decoration, so I might do something in that. I might, at some point, take two years off to study… — Sania Mirza 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
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
Have you ever considered how much pure stuff and nonsense surrounds this subject of interior decoration? Probably not. Almost everyone believes that… — Dorothy Draper Copy Share Image
Clothes, when abstracted from the flow of present time and their transmogrifying function on the human body, and seen as forms in… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
I've been collecting crystals for many, many years for healing purposes and decoration. I guess since my name is Crystal, I have… — Crystal Renn 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
Clothes should never be decoration....whe n someone feels at peace with the clothes, they feel more seductive, more desirable, more sensual, more… — Haider Ackermann Copy Share Image
No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image