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.
Music is interior decoration.
Do you think that the Lord gave them to me for a decoration?
The Gospel is not reformation, decoration or renovation. It is liberation.
[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling.
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.
You create your own decoration. You choose your color, you choose your mood. . . . If you are depressed, you put some bright yellow and suddenly you are happy.
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.
I think taking design out of the studio and really having a relationship with the people that you're making it for really convinced me of how powerful a thing design is. It's not just an aesthetic decoration.
I only like decoration if it plays second to the architecture of a dress.
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.
Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.
Decoration is just make-up for the wrinkles of the idea.
Prayer is not a pious decoration of life but the breath of human existence.
Humorists of the 'mere' sort cannot survive. Humor is only a fragrance, a decoration.
Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper.
Audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure.
After the design is firmly fixed, the decoration is added. Decorating is the final enhancement.
Content informs design; design without content is decoration.
The mask means to me: freshness of color, sumptuous decoration, wild unexpected gestures, very shrill expressions, exquisite turbulence.
