Decoration Quotations

Imagining themes that are specific to coating lines, shapes, shades, thoughts, the decoration of our homes and the objects of utility or pure pleasure, adapting its purpose in a material-specific way to metal or wood, marble or fabric - it is, without any doubt, an absorbing occupation.

I've never used ethnic music as decoration for profit.

I have a love for colorful things. I'm a fashion maximalist. I come from the school of people who look at the decoration in Marie Antoinette's bedroom, and think 'Why so reserved?'

I'm all for people who know rabbits, do the research, ask questions, do the soul-searching, and make sure they're in the position to have a bunny. That's great. But they really need to think about it. We have a fairly lengthy application for bunnies. Not to discourage people -- we want them to realize what they're getting into. It's not a live decoration to leave in a cage.

I first began collecting posters for simple decoration on my wall.

When I was in my early twenties, I hoped one day to own a Victoria Cross, the ultimate decoration in Britain and the Commonwealth for bravery in the face of the enemy.

The style of the decoration is unique, not so much from an artistic point of view, but for the subject and the colors used.

As potential areas for body decoration the buttocks provide little scope. They are too private for displaying the handiwork and too sat-upon for the attachment of ornaments.

Flowers have always been popular in Japan. They've been applied as decoration to everything from fabrics and household utensils to scroll paintings and revered as objects in tea ceremonies.

I really think about the clothes and the cut of the clothes, so we try to work the decoration into the seams. We've added borders, piping and again more top stitching -- things that give dimension to otherwise flat fabrics.

It just makes it look older. That's kind of what they made for decoration back then. Back in the older days, there was always some type of skin hanging on the barn walls.

For people like me, books are something solid and real, whereas digital stuff is a bit more ethereal. I like the trophy on my shelf, the presence in my home. A nice book is just as valuable as a decoration as a beautiful porcelain urn - and, let's face it, a hell of a lot more useful.

Content informs design; design without content is decoration.

Interior decoration partly thrives on being social.

... it has always seemed to me that books are the supreme decorations of a room

Audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure.

Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration.

What is art? It is not decoration. It is the re-living of experience.

Music is interior decoration.

Humorists of the 'mere' sort cannot survive. Humor is only a fragrance, a decoration.