Decoration Quote by Clement Greenberg

Decoration is really about creating a quality of life, and a beauty in that life that nourishes the soul, that makes life beautiful.

— Albert Hadley

Decoration is just make-up for the wrinkles of the idea.

— Thomas Manss

Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper.

— Ettore Sottsass

I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration.

— Jil Sander

“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“for I wish rather, in this lecture at least, to dwell on the effect that decorative art has on human life - on its…

— Oscar Wilde

“Spurn everything that is added by way of decoration and display by unneccesary labour. Relect that nothing merits admiration except the spirit, the impressiveness…

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty.

— Bruce Lee

“The one law of Art is its own spontaneity, its pleasure and freedom. How mystic, pure and simple is its wish; it has no…

— Austin Osman Spare

I only like decoration if it plays second to the architecture of a dress,

— Madeleine Vionnet

After the design is firmly fixed, the decoration is added. Decorating is the final enhancement.

— Albert Hadley

“It does not seem possible to me to conceive anything sadder than a monument composed of a smooth, naked and unadorned surface, of a…

— Aldo Rossi