Decorative Quotes

56 quotes by 50 authors

The overscaled compositions being produced by so many abstract painters, which are full of movement and use of color, are ideal example, ideal transformations of… — Van Day Truex
No word meaning "art" occurs in Aivilik, nor does "artist": there are only people. Nor is any distinction made between utilitarian and decorative objects. The… — Edmund Snow Carpenter
A pretty woman is a Christmas tree,' my mother told me in the airport. This fella is hanging things on my branches as his gaze… — Joshilyn Jackson
What are plants doing? What are plants all about? They serve human beings by being decorative, but what is it from its own point of… — Alan Watts
Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly — Oscar Wilde
The shaping of taste is essentially the science of merchandising, whether of detergents or cars or books or objects of fine and decorative art. — Russell Lynes
My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter. — Gyorgy Ligeti
Every decorative piece in this house is my feeling, my choice. — Connie Stevens
It's not that you get a clichÃ© and then wiggle it about or use synonyms. You don't take an ordinary decorative paragraph and give it… — Martin Amis
Decorators never quite saw the point of massing books. Books brought colour to a room and filled it up, but shelves bearing just one thing… — Peter York
Composition is the art of arranging in a decorative manner the various elements which the painter uses to express his sentiments. In a picture every… — Henri Matisse
The work resembles a breech delivery-one which is expressed in rhythmic lurches, stabs of phrase and vocal ornamentation designed to express agitation rather than decorative… — Wendell Phillips
The difficulty with color is to go beyond the fact that it's color ? to have it be not just a colorful picture but really… — Mary Ellen Mark
I am fine, though it is hard to think of what kind of work to make at this point, other than decorative, escapist or abstract.… — Cindy Sherman
I was doing something that the officials or art commission probably didn't consider important... I was experimenting with different kinds of realistic art, impressionism and… — E. J. Hughes
Initially, it was the unpractical in fashion that brought me to design my own line. I felt that it was much more attractive to cut… — Jil Sander
A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order,… — Charles Horton Cooley
Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative. — Ken Follett
The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to… — Edward Hopper
From the outset, MoMA followed the Bauhaus's strict prohibition against design that even hinted at the decorative, a prejudice that skewed the pioneering museum's view… — Martin Filler

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