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

  Madeleine Vionnet

  Play, Dresses, Architecture

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Decoration is asked to be 'merely' pleasing, 'merely' embellishing, and the 'functional' logic of Modernism leaves no room, apparently, for such 'mereness.' This is part of the pity of Modernism, one of the sacrifices it enjoins.

  Clement Greenberg

  Sacrifice, Rooms, Logic

  Clement Greenberg, Robert C. Morgan (2007). “Clement Greenberg, Late Writings”, Univ Of Minnesota Press

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• 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.

  Van Day Truex

  Art, Design, Reign

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

  Ferdinand Alexander Porsche

  Needs, Form, Should

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• 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.

  Noel Gallagher

  Christmas, London, Firsts

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

  Jimmy Page

  Knowing, Needs, Able

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• 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.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Beautiful, Art, What Matters

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• English life is nothing but a huge masquerade ball in which the participants contrive to conceal their feelings, their addresses, their hobbies, their incomes, their decorations, their sorrows, their talents, their achievements, and even their names.

  Pierre Daninos

  Names, Achievement, Feelings

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

  Haider Ackermann

  Clothes, Seductive, Sensual

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

  James Ensor

  Mean, Expression, Color

  Anna Swinbourne, James Ensor, Susan Marie Canning, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (2009). “James Ensor”, p.22, The Museum of Modern Art

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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.

  Terry Pratchett

  Stupid, Class, People

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

  Henri Nouwen

  Prayer, Existence, Humans

  Henri Nouwen (2013). “The Wounded Healer: Ministry in Contemporary Society”, p.17, Image

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