Quote by Pugin Augustus Welby Northmore

“Anything that's not functional is merely decorative.”

— David Mazzucchelli

“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“Do not decorate it with flowers or hang a ribbon on it, demoiselle. We are not noble...”

— Robin LaFevers

“Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy.”

— Pablo Picasso

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

“A masterpiece is never created in a hurry.”

— Joyce Meyer

“Where utility ends and decoration begins is perfection.”

— Jack Gardner

“ It's strangely liberating. It's liberating, energising, and thrilling to step outside all of the rules of decorum and exist in a place I've…

— Wendy Wunder

“It is not about the building, but about what the building can produce.”

— ANIKOR Daniel

“It may happen that we do not always want the most beautiful form, but one of our own designing. ”

— Shirley Hibberd

“We should remember that all the arts are fine arts and all the arts decorative arts.”

— Oscar Wilde

“...I have come to be convinced that it is only the unbending observance of custom that sustains life in an urban circumstance.”

— Gordon Lish