Decoration Quotes

“Wikipedia: Decoration”

“Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.”

“Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.”

“Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.”

“Decorate! your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is. Or the theater stage designer's maxim: "If you can't hide it, decorate it."”

“She well knew the great architectural secret of decorating her constructions, and never condescended to construct a decoration.”

“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.”

“I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.”

“The tradition of painting and decorating oxcarts started in the early twentieth century. Originally, each region of Costa Rica had its own particular design, enabling the identification of the driver’s origin by the painted patterns on the wheels.”

“An approach in which the external physical elements of expression are merely pleasingly arranged. This way results in decoration with no spiritual reaction. Arrangement is not art.”

“You may have a throne at the royal court, with beautiful decorations and soft carpets, all sorts of luscious fruits and beautiful gardens, the excitement of the chase and princely pleasures - but still, the mind is not made happy by such illusory diversions.”

“A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration.”

“Amber—a mineralized yellowish resin—was used in antiquity for decoration. In common with the bright shining silver-gold alloys, and gold itself, it was called "electron"; hence the word "electricity".”

“So I was always in touch with things of stone and with this kind of pure structural architecture — without frills or unnecessary decoration. All of this became an integral part of my thinking at a very early stage.”

“The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.”

“Usually in theater, the visual repeats the verbal. The visual dwindles into decoration. But I think with my eyes. For me, the visual is not an afterthought, not an illustration of the text. If it says the same thing as the words, why look? The visual must be so compelling that a deaf man would sit though the performance fascinated.”

“We are left to worry about pictorial space almost by default. But, after all, the aim of art is to create space — space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space in which the subjects of painting can live. This is what painting has always been about.”

“Luxury and richness of decoration, and the general striking appearance of a facade, seem to be the only source of pleasure to generosity of persons...Public and private utility, the welfare and comfort of individuals, are the ends of the Art to which all other points must be … that decoration should begin.”

“The life-boat may have a tasteful bend and beautiful decoration, but these are not the qualities for which I prize it; it was my salvation from the howling sea! So the interest which a regenerate soul takes in the Bible, is founded on a personal application to the heart of the saving truth which it contains.”

“The Roman did not perceive beauty in every-day matters, or indeed care to do so. Beauty was unimportant to him. Life in his eyes was a very serious and a very arduous business, and he had no time for what he would have thought of as a mere decoration of it...There were imperative tasks to summon men for all that was in them.”