Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
Decoration is really about creating a quality of life, and a beauty in that life that nourishes the soul, that makes life beautiful.
The aim of art is to create space.
Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper.
Decoration is just make-up for the wrinkles of the idea.
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.
After the design is firmly fixed, the decoration is added. Decorating is the final enhancement.
Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.
You create your own decoration. You choose your color, you choose your mood. ... If you are depressed, you put some bright yellow and suddenly you are happy.
Orders and decorations are necessary in order to dazzle the people.
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.
Interior decoration partly thrives on being social.
What is art? It is not decoration. It is the re-living of experience.
Music is interior decoration.
I love Christmas, not just because of the presents but because of all the decorations and lights and the warmth of the season.
Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty.
Designers must educate the public that design is about strategy, not decoration. However, such attempts are repeatedly undermined by a design world hooked on competitions and awards ceremonies that celebrate creativity instead of strategy results and sustainability.
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 color, an awareness of balance, a feeling for lighting, a sense of style, a zest for life and an amused enjoyment of the smart accessories of the moment.
Humorists of the 'mere' sort cannot survive. Humor is only a fragrance, a decoration.
An important question to ask is, 'Where and when did decoration and utility first meet?
I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration.
The Gospel is not reformation, decoration or renovation. It is liberation.
I think taking design out of the studio and really having a relationship with the people that you're making it for really convinced me of how powerful a thing design is. It's not just an aesthetic decoration.
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.
Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid for it, like the decorations of an insane monkey.
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