Decoration Quote by Jeffrey Zeldman

Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration.

— Jeffrey Zeldman

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

— Jil Sander

Content dictates form and style.

— Stephen Sondheim

“Without aesthetic, design is either the humdrum repetition of familiar clichés or a wild scramble for novelty. Without the aesthetic, the computer is but…

— Paul Rand

Content begets content.

— Chad Hurley

Often I forget that design is really about removing things: optimizing the flow of information, the display, so there are the fewest elements possible,…

— David Mccandless

Design is not the act of amazing an audience with the novelty of forms or materials; it is the originality that repeatedly extracts astounding…

— Kenya Hara

Decoration is asked to be 'merely' pleasing, 'merely' embellishing, and the 'functional' logic of Modernism leaves no room, apparently, for such 'mereness.' This is…

— Clement Greenberg

Design is art that people use,

— Ellen Lupton

Without design, there may be representation, but there can be no art.

— Kenyon Cox

Providing, meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures - it is the designer's job to select and fit this material…

— Paul Rand

Design has to work. Art does not.

— Donald Judd