Top 158 Decoration Quotes & Sayings

A formally harmonious product needs no decoration; it should be elevated through pure form.

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

The Gospel is not reformation, decoration or renovation. It is liberation.

After the design is firmly fixed, the decoration is added. Decorating is the final enhancement.

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

I like interior decoration, so I might do something in that. I might, at some point, take two years off to study interior decoration.

Yet he saw that in all places there was originality, resulting from the human efforts at decoration and ingenious methods of survival.

I'm just not very interested in decoration.

Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms.

Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away.

You might be a redneck if an expired license plate means another decoration for your living room wall.

What is art? It is not decoration. It is the re-living of experience.

I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague.

Your body's always going through changes. It's fattening or thinning or wrinkling or blotching, and the only thing you really have control over is putting some decoration on it.

I have a love for colorful things. I'm a fashion maximalist. I come from the school of people who look at the decoration in Marie Antoinette's bedroom, and think 'Why so reserved?'

I worked at Bergdorf Goodman doing interior decoration.

I was painting furniture, learning to stencil, and explore all kinds of traditional techniques of decoration. I learned from books that I picked up.

The mask means to me: freshness of color, sumptuous decoration, wild unexpected gestures, very shrill expressions, exquisite turbulence.

Being a winner is more than getting a first place trophy, it is acting like the effort was an honour and the trophy is just a decoration.

Do you think that the Lord gave them to me for a decoration?

It's great to have female characters that have depth that you can explore instead of being the decoration or the girlfriend or the wife.

Practice design, Not Decoration: Don't just make pretty talking points. Instead, display information in a way that makes complex information clear.

Music is interior decoration.

I suppose the most marked example of color as structure is in the Byzantine use of mosaic decoration that becomes architecture. The decoration of the interiors so related to the form that they fuse. In less elaborate interior design this is always the ideal approach to color - used not only as just color alone.

I thought I was going to be able to use my painting ideas as decoration on pottery, but my painting did not translate into decoration on pottery. I thought it was going to, and in fact I made, while still in school, a plate with one of my paintings on it, and that's exactly what it was, it was a plate with a painting on it. It was not a decorated plate; it was just a painting superimposed over a three-dimensional ceramic form.

I think that all art is socially conscious. There is no alternative. Whatever we produce contains a political and social statement. There's no way to avoid that, unless it is pure decoration. But even pure decoration has also some value because you can read pure decoration as a way to ignore the reality that is around us, saying, "Well, I'm not interested. I just like to paint this wall blue.

A formally harmonious product needs no decoration, it should be elevated through pure form.

Interior decoration partly thrives on being social.

Decoration is just make-up for the wrinkles of the idea.

I learned about the sacred art of self decoration with the monarch butterflies perched atop my head, lightning bugs as my night jewelry, and emerald-green frogs as bracelets.

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

Prayer is not a pious decoration of life but the breath of human existence.

My point is, to emulate dead animals and their parts as decoration is pretty disgusting, and as a design statement, it also fills me with ennui.

No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.

I only like decoration if it plays second to the architecture of a dress.

[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling.

I was a product of the society that said women are for decoration, and I do think girls should be able to do whatever they want.

If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration.

The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.

Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that is celebrated with champagne...Oh no! It's a...long distance race, quite solitary and very exhausting.

I've been collecting crystals for many, many years for healing purposes and decoration. I guess since my name is Crystal, I have no choice.

Not every oak has to be gnarled, every detective hard-bitten. The adjective that exists solely as a decoration is a self-indulgence for the writer and an obstacle for the reader.

I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving.

I am going in now for interior decoration. By that I mean supplying objets d'art and giving advice regarding the decoration of their houses to wealthy persons who do not have the time, inclination, nor culture to do such work for themselves. It is nothing new. Women have done the same thing before.

Alix [MacKenzie], on the other hand, found that her painting would translate much more readily into decoration, and she could play with the spacing and the intensity of imagery on the form in a way which I could not. So that when we established our pottery, I was most unhappy with my decoration.

I am very good at decoration. I am maybe extremely good at decoration.

Humorists of the 'mere' sort cannot survive. Humor is only a fragrance, a decoration.

When I was in my early twenties, I hoped one day to own a Victoria Cross, the ultimate decoration in Britain and the Commonwealth for bravery in the face of the enemy.

There are schools teaching 'stage decoration' as a subject, and they actually call it that. I say: 'Burn those schools!'

It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration.

It is also absolutely correct that some British folk customs have descended directly from pagan rituals, such ... the giving of presents and decoration of homes with greenery at midwinter.

I wasn't lucky enough to find a Chris Stein like Debbie Harry did. I was with Todd Rundgren... He was the star, I was the decoration.

Painting isn't made for the decoration of apartments; it is a weapon to be used offensively and defensively against the enemy.

An important question to ask is, 'Where and when did decoration and utility first meet?

Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty.

So I very quickly stopped almost all decoration. I was interested in the three-dimensional form of the pots, but my decoration was nonexistent.

A composer's job involves the decoration of fragments of time.

Audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure.

I've never used ethnic music as decoration for profit.

I always think of music as interior decoration. So, if you have all kinds of music, you are fully decorated!