Decorative Quote by Ellen Bryant Voigt

Each superfluous line, each wrongly placed line, any color placed without veneration or care, can spoil everything, that is, the spiritual.

— Theo van Doesburg

The fineness which a hymn or psalm affords / If when the soul unto the lines accords.

— George Herbert

Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand.

— Andre Maurois

...we will stand amazed to see the topside of the tapestry and how God beautifully embroidered each circumstance into a pattern for our good…

— Joni Eareckson Tada

I came to feel an artist might use anything - a dot, a line, the most conventional or unconventional symbol - t say what…

— Marcel Duchamp

My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style.

— Rick Moody

Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the…

— Wallace Stevens

“Seeing the God statement Suppose the statement Blessed Are the pure in heart, for they shall see God were placed like a wreath of…

— Pattiann Rogers

For me the form, the stanzaic shape, is an endorsement, proof that I'm engaged with the Latin or Greek at an original level, that…

— Michael Longley

I hope that increasing numbers of Christians adopt the practice of wearing a cross in a simple and discreet way as a symbol of…

— Keith O'Brien

It is an excellent habit to look at things as so many symbols.

— Gustave Flaubert

“Symbology and ritual, at best, can only mimic the Truth ... and cannot, and never has had, any mastery over the manifestations of Divinity.”

— Gabriel Brunsdon