Decoration Quotes

120 Decoration quotes by 103 unique authors

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… — William C. Bryant
It is better decoration when, in painting, some monstrosity is introduced for variety and a relaxation of the senses and to attract the attention of… — Michelangelo
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.… — Richard Schickel
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… — Clement Greenberg
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… — Clement Greenberg
I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration. — Jil Sander
I didn't take care of the kids. I took care of the interior decoration of the house. I wanted to be an architect, so I… — Giovanna Cau
Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration. — E. M. Forster
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,… — Ismail Haniyeh
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. — Ernest Hemingway
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… — Steven Pinker
I love Christmas, not just because of the presents but because of all the decorations and lights and the warmth of the season. — Ashley Tisdale
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… — Martin Filler
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… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid for it, like the decorations of an… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Here and there one sees the blush of wild rose haws or the warmth of orange fruit on the bittersweet, and back in the woods… — Hal Borland
My friend wants to get moving and so do I,' Eddie said. 'We've got miles to go yet.' I know that. It's on your face,… — Stephen King
...but you are too much for them: the weak in courage are strong in cunning; and one by one, you have absorbed and have captured… — James Agee
She surrounded herself with books at work and at home. Her living space was a testament to her first and abiding love with shelves jammed… — Nora Roberts
It is very frustrating not to be understood in this world. If you say one thing and keep being told that you mean something else,… — Daniel Handler
But Philip was impatient with himself; he called to mind his idea of the pattern of life: the unhappiness he had suffered was no more… — W. Somerset Maugham
Existence is not itself a good thing, that we should spend a lifetime securing its necessaries: a life spent, however victoriously, in securing the necessaries… — A. E. Housman
Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put… — Oscar Wilde
I’ll probably just stand in a corner, trying not to be noticed, until the decoration committee accidentally packs me into a box at the end… — Jordan Sonnenblick
Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical intensification,… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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