I like ornament at the right time, but I don't want a poem to be made out of decoration. . . When I read the poems that matter to me, it stuns me how much the presence of the heart-in all its forms-is endlessly available there. To experience ourselves in an important way just knocks me out. It puzzles me why people have given that up for cleverness. Some of them are ingenious, more ingenious than I am, but so many of them aren't any good at being alive.
What is art? It is not decoration. It is the re-living of experience.
A formally harmonious product needs no decoration, it should be elevated through pure form.
Do you think that the Lord gave them to me for a decoration?
Painting isn't made for the decoration of apartments; it is a weapon to be used offensively and defensively against the enemy.
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.
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.
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
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.
. . . it has always seemed to me that books are the supreme decorations of a room
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.
Music is interior decoration.
Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.
The Gospel is not reformation, decoration or renovation. It is liberation.
Humorists of the 'mere' sort cannot survive. Humor is only a fragrance, a decoration.
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.
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.
Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper.
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.
I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration.
