Art Quote by 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

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

True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building, or a…

— Frank Lloyd Wright

The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament

— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“It's easy to dismiss design - to relegate it to mere ornament, the prettifying of places and objects to disguise their banality. But that…

— Daniel H. Pink

Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.

— Munshi Premchand

Most works are most beautiful without ornament.

— Walt Whitman

“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

Art is subject to arbitrary fashion.

— Kary Mullis

Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Beneath the pleasure generated by the juxtaposition of order and complexity, we can identify the subsidiary architectural virtue of balance. Beauty is a likely…

— Alain de Botton

Ornamental pattern work, to be raised above the contempt of reasonable men, must possess three qualities: beauty, imagination and order.

— William Morris