Architecture Quote by Madeleine Vionnet Download Open image “I only like decoration if it plays second to the architecture of a dress,” — Madeleine Vionnet ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Architecture Decoration Dresses Fashion Ifs Play
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 Copy Share Image
I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration. — Jil Sander Copy Share Image
Have you ever considered how much pure stuff and nonsense surrounds this subject of interior decoration? Probably not. Almost everyone believes that there is something deep and mysterious about it or that you have to know all sorts of complicated details about periods before you can lift a finger. Well, you don't. Decorating is just sheer fun: a delight in… — Dorothy Draper Copy Share
Clothes should never be decoration…whe n someone feels at peace with the clothes, they feel more seductive, more desirable, more sensual, more everything. — Haider Ackermann Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper. — Ettore Sottsass Copy Share Image
My favorite thing about decorating is mixing different periods and styles. If you have something that's old, and you really do want to mix… — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
I deeply believe that a beautiful decor can have a beneficial influence on our lives. — Albert Hadley Copy Share Image
“Interior decoration is not just one's artistic efforts, but it is that which your home (even if it is just a room) is. If… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Insofar as one can talk of a Vionnet school, it comes mostly from my having been an enemy of fashion. There is something superficial… — Madeleine Vionnet Copy Share Image
The couturier should be a geometrician, for the human body makes geometrical figures to which the materials should correspond. — Madeleine Vionnet Copy Share Image
Taste is the feeling that permits one to tell the difference between what is beautiful and what is merely spectacular. — Madeleine Vionnet Copy Share Image
The dress must not hang on the body but follow its lines. When a woman smiles the dress must smile with her. — Madeleine Vionnet Copy Share Image
The bones of my architecture are very much related to the structure, to the physical fact of how a building can stand up; it's… — Santiago Calatrava Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and… — Jay Griffiths Copy Share Image
I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to,… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
When I am asked what I believe in, I say that I believe in architecture. Architecture is the mother of the arts. I like… — Richard Meier Copy Share Image
Some architects have a preconceived notion of what a building should be — Curtis W. Fentress Copy Share Image
The essential functions of the mind consist in understanding and in inventing, in other words, in building up structures by structuring reality. — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
London, from the architecture to the culture to the fashion to the accents, feels like it's a special place. — G-Eazy Copy Share Image
A wiki works best where you're trying to answer a question that you can't easily pose, where there's not a natural structure that's known… — Ward Cunningham Copy Share Image
Architecture is not a profession for the faint-hearted, the weak-willed, or the short-lived. — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
