Decoration Quotes - Page 2

• Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.

  William C. Bryant

  Ocean, Waste, Melancholy

  William Cullen Bryant, “Thanatopsis”

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• 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.

  Albert Camus

  Distance, Race, Long

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• There is no real need for decorations when throwing a barbecue party - let the summer garden, in all its vibrant and luscious splendour, speak for itself.

  Pippa Middleton

  Summer, Real, Party

  "Pippa Middleton's Book On Partying Is Not Very Good" by Christopher Howse, www.businessinsider.com. November 2, 2012.

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• Design is not about decorating functional forms - it is about creating forms that accord with the character of the object and that show new technologies to advantage.

  Peter Behrens

  Character, Technology, Creating

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• 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.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Beautiful, Uplifting, Memorial Day

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1903). “Ponkapog Papers”

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• An opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses and keep up an indolent attention in the audience.

  Joseph Addison

  Design, Attention, May

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853). “The Spectator”, p.16

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• That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,-- Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.

  William C. Bryant

  Ocean, Men, Green

  William Cullen Bryant, “Thanatopsis”

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• Another of the strange and evil tendencies of the present day is the decoration of the railroad station... There was never more flagrant nor impertinent folly than the smallest portion of ornament in anything connected with the railroads... Railroad architecture has or would have a dignity of its own if it were only left to its work.

  John Ruskin

  Evil, Ornaments, Railroads

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

  Nancy Duarte

  Talking, Practice, Design

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

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Wall, Mean, Redneck

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• Middle East has been in turmoil for thousands of years. For us to think that we're going to in there and fix that with a couple of little bombs and a few little decorations is relatively foolish.

  Benjamin Carson

  Couple, Thinking, Years

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• I get obsessed with decorations and decorating the house. I keep it tasteful outside, but when you get inside it is a bit like Blackpool illuminations, I go bonkers!

  Johnny Vegas

  Illumination, House, Obsessed

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• Clothes, when abstracted from the flow of present time and their transmogrifying function on the human body, and seen as forms in themselves, are strange tubes and excrescences worthy of being classed with such facial decorations as the ring through the nose or the lip-stretching disk. But how enchanting they become when seen togetherwith the qualities they bestow on their wearer! What happens then is no less than the infusion, into some tangled lines on a piece of paper, of the meaning of a great word.

  Robert Musil

  Clothes, Tangled, Quality

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• ... it has always seemed to me that books are the supreme decorations of a room

  Patrick O'Brian

  Book, Rooms, Supreme

  Patrick O'Brian (1952). “Testimonies”

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  Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.

  Tom Ford

  Life, Change, Fashion

  Interview with Daisy Garnett, nymag.com.

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• We don't wear sequins because we think we're great. We wear them because we think sequins are great.

  Gram Parsons

  Thinking, Style, Embellishment

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• But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.

  Frank Stella

  Art, Illustration, Space

  Frank Stella (1986). “Working Space”, p.5, Harvard University Press

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• I would prefer to have one comfortable room well stocked with books to all you could give me in the way of decoration which the highest art could supply.

  John Bright

  Art, Book, Giving

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• 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.

  Edith Wharton

  May, Architecture, Sanity

  Edith Wharton, Ogden Codman (2015). “The Decoration of Houses”, p.33, Courier Dover Publications

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• Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can see it too. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Writing, Action, Emotion

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

  Michael O'Brien

  Effort, Survival, Saws

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• It is better decoration when, in painting, some monstrosity is introduced for variety and a relaxation of the senses and to attract the attention of mortal eyes, which at times desire to see that which they have never seen.

  Michelangelo

  Eye, Relaxation, Desire

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• I love Christmas! I'm not religious, but I love the trappings of the season. I love the decorations, and the music, and Santa, and the festive food, and the cinnamon- and vanilla-infused aromas.

  Jane Cleland

  Religious, Christmas Love, Santa

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

  Pablo Picasso

  War, Enemy, Defense

  Hans Ludwig C. Jaffé, Pablo Picasso (1983). “Pablo Picasso”, Harry N. Abrams

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

  Madeleine Vionnet

  Play, Dresses, Architecture

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