Decoration Quotes - Page 3

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

  A. B. Simpson

  Enough, Crosses

  A. B. Simpson (2010). “The Cross of Christ: His Sufferings and Their Impact on the Believer”, p.23, Moody Publishers

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

  Alice von Hildebrand

  Thinking, Lord

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

  Pablo Picasso

  Enemy, Weapons, Painting

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• Les trois quarts de nos exercices intellectuels ne sont plus que broderies sur le vide. Three quarters of our intellectual performances are no more than decorations over a void.

  Stephanie Crayencour

  Intellectual, Three, Void

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• Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day.

  Oscar Wilde

  Summer, Flower, Vanity

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.20, GENERAL PRESS

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

  Frank Zappa

  Jobs, Fragments, Composer

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• I think I generally try to buy the best quality and keep it simple. I don't try to make too many decorations, too many things with it.

  Wolfgang Puck

  Simple, Thinking, Trying

  Source: seriesandtv.com

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

  Warren MacKenzie

  Three, Pot, Form

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Every culture has beauty and decorations of body. This is not of itself superficial, this is very human. Decorating when it becomes out of balance, when it becomes about the materialism, about how many shoes, how many handbags, how expensive they are, and the status, then it's no longer just about an expression or looking beautiful, that's more about 'I HAVE MONEY, I AM RICH'. It felt out of balance.

  David LaChapelle

  Beautiful, Shoes, Expression

  Source: www.kaltblut-magazine.com

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• A Christian should resemble a fruit tree with real fruit, not a Christmas tree with decorations tied on

  John Stott

  Christian, Real, Tree

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• The combination of an individual[i.e., a client] with a positive idea of living and a good designer is the great force in contemporary decoration. I don't care how good the designer is, I am sure that he [or she] would rahter have a person with definite ideas rahter than have to work with a negative figure as a client.

  Van Day Truex

  Ideas, Design, Negative

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• Content informs design; design without content is decoration.

  Jeffrey Zeldman

  Design

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

  Paul Smith

  Book, Furniture, Technique

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• To create an atmosphere dedicated to health..to present charming interiors that will attract maternity patients...to develop distinctive decoration and furnishings that can be installed at modest expenditure - and will require a minimum of maintenance costs.

  Dorothy Draper

  Design, Atmosphere, Cost

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• Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or public discussion of such contradictions, into a proud decoration, such as are given for heroism on the field of battle.

  James A. Baldwin

  America, Society, Battle

  "Notes of a Native Son". Book by James Baldwin, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 1955.

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• I feel like a lot of time my writing is like having about twenty boxes of Christmas decorations. But no tree. You're going, Where do I put this? Then they go, Okay, you can have a tree, but we'll blindfold you and you gotta cut it down with a spoon.

  Carolyn Chute

  Writing, Cutting, Tree

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• This is war: Boys flung into a breach Like shoveled earth; And old men, Broken, Driving rapidly before crowds of people In a glitter of silly decorations. Behind the boys And the old men, Life weeps, And shreds her garments To the blowing winds.

  Amy Lowell

  War, Silly, Boys

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• 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.

  Warren MacKenzie

  School, Ideas, Ceramics

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• Coco Chanel really wanted to have freedom of a man, and at first the only way she could find that freedom was through the clothes. They freed her movement; she got rid of the corset. This imposed her not as a decoration but as a real personality. She invented a new way of seductions through these clothes.

  Audrey Tautou

  Real, Men, Clothes

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• Many people prefer a view of human nature that includes a true side and a false side - in other words, humans have a single genuine aim and the rest is decoration, evasion, or cover-up. That's intuitive, but it's incomplete. A study of the brain necessitates a more nuanced view of human nature.

  David Eagleman

  Views, People, Brain

  David Eagleman (2011). “Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain”, p.114, Vintage

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• You know, we love to categorise or label everything in our lives: people, movies. But I think that those are just the decorations. They, of course, work. They're great, but that's not the thrust of the film.

  Hrithik Roshan

  Thinking, People, Labels

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• The names of great painters are like passing-bells: in the name of Velasquez you hear sounded the fall of Spain; .in the name of Titian, that of Venice; in the name of Leonardo, that of Milan; in the name of Raphael, that of Rome. And there is profound justice in this, for in proportion to the nobleness of the power is the guilt of its use for purposes vain or vile; and hitherto the greater the art, the more surely has it been used, and used solely, for the decoration of pride or the provoking of sensuality.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Fall, Pride

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• Candlesticks and incense not being portable into the maintop, the sailor perceives these decorations to be, on the whole, inessential to a maintop mass. Sails must be set and cables bent, be it never so strict a saint's day; and it is found that no harm comes of it. Absolution on a lee-shore must be had of the breakers, it appears, if at all; and they give plenary and brief without listening to confession.

  John Ruskin

  Giving, Listening, Saint

  John Ruskin (1871). “Selections from the Writings of John Ruskin”, p.129

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• There are only a few bits of absolute knowledge in the world, people can learn only one or two fundamental facts about each other, the rest is decoration and prejudice.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Knowledge, Two, People

  Katherine Anne Porter (2008). “Katherine Anne Porter: Collected Stories & Other Writings”, p.667, Library of America

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• This year's [2016] White House holiday theme is "The Gift of the Holidays," and our decorations reflect some of our greatest gifts as a nation: from our incredible military families, to the life-changing impact of a great education.

  Michelle Obama

  Military, Life Changing, Holiday

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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