Building Quote by Frank Lloyd Wright

One of the first principles of decorative art is that in all manufactures ornament must hold a place subordinate to that of utility; and…

— George Mason

The art of decoration requires the most sophisticated and self-indulgent skills. Its aim has always been to sate the senses as gloriously as possible.…

— Ada Louise Huxtable

Names and attributes must be accommodated to the essence of things, and not the essence to the names, since things come first and names…

— Galileo Galilei

Most works are most beautiful without ornament.

— Walt Whitman

I’ve named everything that I’ve ever owned. Real or inanimate, I have to give it a first and last name. Everything in my apartment…

— Amy Sedaris

An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory.

— Oscar Wilde

The true definition of origanality is the ability of hiding your sources.

— Erica

To name a thing is easy: the difficulty is to discern it before its appearance.

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Elegance is not an ornament worthy of man.

— Seneca the Younger

A name, of course is like a piece of clothing, isn't it? It gives you an impression right away.

— James Salter

While I tend to keep embellishment minimal as my clients often possess some of the finest jewellery, I enjoy creating ornamentation that appears like…

— Stephane Rolland

“So what's in a name? The answer, we have seen, is, a great deal. In the sense of a morphological product, a name is…

— Steven Pinker