Decorative Quotes

56 Decorative quotes by 50 unique authors

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 cliché 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
The magnificent lobby of the Chrysler Building - faced with rare marbles, aglitter with decorative metalwork, and surmounted by a ceiling painted with a totemic… — Martin Filler
To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a… — George Orwell
He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs were not loyal… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Beloved, we are always in the wrong, Handling so clumsily our stupid lives, Suffering too little or too long, Too careful even in our selfish… — Wystan Hugh Auden
The only purpose of cats is that they constitute mobile decorative objects. — Muriel Barbery
The amazing activity of the cat is delicately balanced by his capacity for relaxation. Every household should contain a cat, not only for decorative and… — William Lyon Phelps
In a way, watching an attractive, potentially dangerous guy play guitar is a little like watching a tiger agree to do tricks for his trainer.… — Merrill Markoe
There is a saying in the Islands. Beware the women of the warrior class, for all they touch is both decorative and deadly.-Yuki — Tamora Pierce
A lot of really big trees had died to make that desk. His mother had probably gnawed them down, used her nails to saw the… — Jennifer Crusie
If you feel your value lies in being merely decorative, I fear that someday you might find yourself believing that’s all that you really are.… — Louisa May Alcott

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