17 Decorative Quotes for You to Enjoy

A fun pair of earrings is basically the finishing touch to any outfit; a nice watch is both practical and decorative, while the perfect unique bag is not only eye-catching but also timeless - it can be passed on to future generations. Liu Wen

Future Nice Earrings Future Generations Outfit Touch Only Both Finishing Perfect Generations Bag Also Practical Passed Timeless Any While Decorative Fun Unique Pair Watch Basically

In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone. Gertrude Jekyll

Work Wisdom Alone Knowledge Garden Other Kinds Some Perceiving Only Also Well Arrangement Gain Acquire Decorative

Just as pure abstract art is not dogmatic, neither is it decorative. Piet Mondrian

Abstract Art Art Pure Neither Abstract Dogmatic Just Decorative

Piercing minds go mute around poetry. It is imagined to be overly technical, like advanced arithmetic; otherworldly, priestess-like; suffocatingly personal; excessively decorative; exhaustingly bourgeois or tiringly avant-garde. Alissa Quart

Minds Mute Poetry Excess Advanced Arithmetic Like Bourgeois Piercing Around Overly Go Personal Avant-Garde Decorative Technical Imagined

People think of me as a stereotype: muse, privileged, decorative. Classically, the muses were the inspiration. They'd come and go - they wouldn't actually make things, get their hands dirty. I don't think I'm a muse, although I think I can help pull a trigger. I really like getting my hands dirty. Amanda Harlech

Me People Think Trigger Inspiration Dirty Stereotype Come Like Come And Go Make Although Go Were Privileged Get Hands Getting Really Decorative Help Actually Things Muse Muses Pull

Every decorative piece in this house is my feeling, my choice. Connie Stevens

Feeling Every Piece House Choice Decorative

I had the fortune to evolve at a time when fashion was very important, and women dressed themselves very well. A woman who dressed very well also had a husband who would have beautiful collections of art and decorative objects. Hubert de Givenchy

There was this enormous burst of sculptural creative juice in the nineteenth century, and all that stuff is just so decorative. Even in pieces cast from a mold, you get a more sensuous, handmade, individual sense from it. Hugh Hardy

Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative. Ken Follett

Women Books Characters Rather Thrillers Masculine Been Very Often Decorative

This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale. Mark Rothko

Living Intimate Scale Distortion Would Would-Be Rather Since Pictures Institutional Opposite Been Normal Than Intense Meaning Decorative Painted

The magnificent lobby of the Chrysler Building - faced with rare marbles, aglitter with decorative metalwork, and surmounted by a ceiling painted with a totemic image of the tower itself - leads to elevator cabs inlaid with exotic woods in fanciful patterns. The entire route from street to office is invested with ceremony, dignity, and delight. Martin Filler

Dignity Rare Building Lobby Chrysler Entire Faced Magnificent Delight Invested Leads Tower Ceiling Exotic Itself Office Woods Fanciful Patterns Ceremony Decorative Painted Marbles Route Street Elevator Image

I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children. Oscar Wilde

Day Simple School Every Would Would-Be Given Attached Hour Up Arts Golden Children Decorative Teaching Workshop

Decorators never quite saw the point of massing books. Books brought colour to a room and filled it up, but shelves bearing just one thing struck them as a decorative display opportunity tragically lost. Peter York

Opportunity Lost Books Saw One Thing Brought Struck Bearing Point Colour Never Shelves Tragically Up Quite Just Just One Just One Thing Room Them Decorative Display Filled Thing

I don't want my daughter to be educated. I think women should just be decorative. Richard Brautigan

Women Daughter Just Be Think Educated Just Want Decorative Should

I think there's a sort of agony with all intelligent and very creative designers that it's only fashion, that in the end it's only the decorative arts. I had a feeling towards the end that Saint Laurent and Berge were very keen to attain that immortality that a lot of designers long for. You know, those endless exhibitions. Suzy Menkes

Fashion You Creative Long Feeling Think Those Immortality Only Attain Had Towards Know Sort Saint Exhibitions Were Lot End Very Intelligent Endless Arts In The End Decorative Agony Keen Designers

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