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  • But the helmet had gold decoration, and the bespoke armorers had made a new gleaming breastplate with useless gold ornamentation on it. Sam Vimes felt like a class traitor every time he wore it. He hated being thought of as one of those people that wore stupid ornamental armor. It was gilt by association.

    Stupid   Class   People  
  • Clothes should never be decoration....whe n someone feels at peace with the clothes, they feel more seductive, more desirable, more sensual, more everything.

  • 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, Ogden Codman (2015). “The Decoration of Houses”, p.33, Courier Dover Publications
  • I love Halloween. It reminds me of my happy childhood days as a student at Wampus Elementary School in Armonk, N.Y., when we youngsters used to celebrate Halloween by making decorations out of construction paper and that white paste that you could eat.

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

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

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

    "The Rumpus Long Interview with Bill Ayers". Interview with Scott Hutchins, therumpus.net. February 20, 2009.
  • They take the greats from the past and compare us. I wonder if they'd ever survive in this era. In a time where it's recreation, to pull all your skeletons out the closet like Halloween decorations.

    Song: Lord Knows, Album: Take Care, 2011
  • Love Is the Treasure The temple of love is not love itself; True love is the treasure, Not the walls about it. Do not admire the decoration, But involve yourself in the essence, The perfume that invades and touches you- The beginning and the end. Discovered, this replaces all else, The apparent and the unknowable. Time and space are slaves to this presence.

    Wall   Love Is   Essence  
    Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi, “The Temple Of Love”
  • Painting isn't made for the decoration of apartments; it is a weapon to be used offensively and defensively against the enemy.

  • 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.

    Jeffrey Veen (2001). “The Art & Science of Web Design”, New Riders Pub
  • 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.

  • It's the first time I'm going to be on my own this Christmas and I'm really looking forward to not having any cards or decorations up. So I'll be in London, sit on my couch, arms folded, curtains drawn, having a drink.

  • 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.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • After the design is firmly fixed, the decoration is added. Decorating is the final enhancement.

  • 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.

    David B. Berman (2008). “Do Good Design: How Design Can Change Our World”, p.140, Peachpit Press
  • They say that Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a homosexual. Truth be told, we don't love him because of that, but he was a great musician, and we all love his music. So what? I assure you that I work with these people. I sometimes award them with state prizes or decorations for their achievements in various fields. We have absolutely normal relations, and I don't see anything out of the ordinary here.

    "Tchaikovsky May Have Been Gay, Putin Reluctantly Admits" by • Alexander Abad-Santos, www.theatlantic.com. September 4, 2013.
  • We should all develop the mind to rejoice in, praise and share in the gift of those who have artistic talents and a richness of heart, whether they achieve wide recognition or not. Cultivating such a beautiful mind is a very worthy effort. Culture and art are not just decorations. They are not just accessories. What matters is whether culture enriches the essential substance of our lives.

  • 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.

  • 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 (1903). “Ponkapog Papers”
  • The aim of art is to create space.

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

    Art   Mean   Giving  
    Penny Sparke, Elsie De Wolfe (2005). “Elsie De Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Decoration”, Acanthus PressLlc
  • I love Christmas, not just because of the presents but because of all the decorations and lights and the warmth of the season.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • 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.

    Source: www.realclearpolitics.com
  • Prayer is not a pious decoration of life but the breath of human existence.

    Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society”, p.17, Image
  • What is art? It is not decoration. It is the re-living of experience.

    Art   Decoration  
    Rebecca West (2007). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon”, p.1127, Penguin
  • 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.

    Art   Wall   Reality  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • Orders and decorations are necessary in order to dazzle the people.

    Order   People   Dazzle  
    "Political Aphorisms, Moral and Philosophical Thoughts" collected and published by Cte. A. G. de Liancourt; edited by James Alexander Manning, (p. 248), 1848.
  • Well, I think I learned a valuable lesson. Always take down your Christmas decorations after new years or you might get filleted by a hooker from God.

  • The modern scene in decoration is not a unified or controlled one. The unified control of the arts during the reign of Louis XIV no longer exists; today the designer is free to achieve a wider variety and more personal approach to the interior.

    Art   Design   Reign  
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