Attention Quote by Michelangelo

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

The real purpose of painting is to give pleasure.

— Robert Ryman

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

The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears…

— Edward Hopper

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful;…

— Henry David Thoreau

For me, it's important to experience aesthetic shock, which sets in motion our imagination, our emotions, our feelings, and our thoughts. That's the purpose…

— Pierre Soulages

I believe the reason I love painting so much is that it forces one to be objective.

— Max Beckmann

To find beauty in the most grotesque things is a gift.

— Seph Lawless

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

— Jil Sander

I'm not at all interested in painting the object just as it is in nature. Certainly I'm much more interested in the mood of…

— Andrew Wyeth

Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper.

— Ettore Sottsass

The aim of the painting is that the eye should find out what it likes.

— Marion Milner