Practice design, Not Decoration: Don't just make pretty talking points. Instead, display information in a way that makes complex information clear.
The mask means to me: freshness of color, sumptuous decoration, wild unexpected gestures, very shrill expressions, exquisite turbulence.
Not every oak has to be gnarled, every detective hard-bitten. The adjective that exists solely as a decoration is a self-indulgence for the writer and an obstacle for the reader.
. . . it has always seemed to me that books are the supreme decorations of a room
What is art? It is not decoration. It is the re-living of experience.
Decoration is really about creating a quality of life, and a beauty in that life that nourishes the soul, that makes life beautiful.
Painting isn't made for the decoration of apartments; it is a weapon to be used offensively and defensively against the enemy.
After the design is firmly fixed, the decoration is added. Decorating is the final enhancement.
The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.
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.
You should not say anything that you cannot put your totality behind. The total value of you is that whatever you say, you stick with it. When you don't stick with what you say, you have no value, and your decoration and your jewelry and your sex and your person have no value. Real communication is the faculty of a human that whatever you say, you stick with it.
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.
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.
An important question to ask is, 'Where and when did decoration and utility first meet?
It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration.
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.
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.
[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling.
Humorists of the 'mere' sort cannot survive. Humor is only a fragrance, a decoration.
