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The Frankfurt Museum of Decorative Arts is a handsome building, which takes its cues from the riverside Biedermeier villa next to it, and it is well-integrated into an overall scheme for a group of small museums. -- Martin Filler
I like decorative, functional things that I feel comfortable in. -- Joey Lauren Adams
Every decorative piece in this house is my feeling, my choice. -- Connie Stevens
Just as pure abstract art is not dogmatic, neither is it decorative. -- Piet Mondrian
Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative. -- Ken Follett
I don't want my daughter to be educated. I think women should just be decorative. -- Richard Brautigan
My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter. -- Gyorgy Ligeti
Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation. -- Max Ernst
I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade. -- Anish Kapoor
From the outset, MoMA followed the Bauhaus's strict prohibition against design that even hinted at the decorative, a prejudice that skewed the pioneering museum's view of Modernism for decades. -- Martin Filler
I love the journeys of research and discovery their development takes me on. I see prints as less 'decorative' than many might, and more fundamental to a garment's core. -- Dries van Noten
You know, we don't have any decorative sprigs of rosemary; we're not placing little matchstick radishes onto an hors d'oeuvre... The food's gotta taste good. The concept's gotta taste good. -- Nadia Giosia
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
I love the idea of the 'vignette,' which is associated with the decorative, illustrative, small, and thus with the feminine, and thus easily maligned. I mean, Emily Dickinson wrote vignettes, right? -- Kate Bernheimer
I love Prada shirts because they're so decorative and figure-hugging, but I also like Reiss shirts because they're clean, simple and look as if they've come off the peg from a design house. -- Jamie Bamber
The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this ideal and to me appears to lead to a purely decorative conception of painting. -- Edward Hopper
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
A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory. -- Charles Horton Cooley
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
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
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
And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything. -- Josef Albers
Initially, it was the unpractical in fashion that brought me to design my own line. I felt that it was much more attractive to cut clothes with respect for the living, three-dimensional body rather than to cover the body with decorative ideas. -- Jil Sander
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
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
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
I think that women should be decorative. -- Raquel Welch
I like decorative, functional things that I feel comfortable in -- Joey Lauren Adams
I'm quite lucky, because I've got a small, decorative concrete pig. -- Bill Bailey
The only purpose of cats is that they constitute mobile decorative objects. -- Muriel Barbery
For me, music is in no way ornamental or decorative, it's constitutive of who I am. -- Cornel West
Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly -- Oscar Wilde
My assistants generally do all the flowers and all of the decorative work. I concentrate on the figure. -- Kehinde Wiley
Painting is neither decorative amusement, nor the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation. -- Max Ernst
Nature is a mere pretext for a decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art. -- Georges Braque
I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves. -- Bruce Lee
A chair is not just a product of decorative art in a space, it is a form and a space in itself -- Finn Juhl
There is a saying in the Islands. Beware the women of the warrior class, for all they touch is both decorative and deadly.-Yuki -- Tamora Pierce
The shaping of taste is essentially the science of merchandising, whether of detergents or cars or books or objects of fine and decorative art. -- Russell Lynes
I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade -- Anish Kapoor
A sex trophy should be functional, and shaped like a dildo, yet decorative, and shaped like Ben Bernanke. Insert it in your ass as desired. -- Jarod Kintz
If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative litt -- George Bernard Shaw
The work resembles a breech delivery-one which is expressed in rhythmic lurches, stabs of phrase and vocal ornamentation designed to express agitation rather than decorative grace. -- Wendell Phillips
The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative. ... They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves. -- Edward Albee
Wall-to-wall masterpieces, after all, ought to be preferred to wall-to-wall decorative arts, even if the decorative arts are of the highest quality peppered and salted with dukes and tiaras. -- Joseph Alsop
I love the idea of the vignette, which is associated with the decorative, illustrative, small, and thus with the feminine, and thus easily maligned. I mean, Emily Dickinson wrote vignettes, right? -- Kate Bernheimer
For me there is no gap between my painting and my so-called 'decorative' work. I never considered the 'minor arts' to be artistically frustrating; on the contrary, it was an extension of my art. -- Sonia Delaunay
Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which life can be poured and lifted to the lips and be tasted. -- Rebecca West
A lot of really big trees had died to make that desk. His mother had probably gnawed them down, used her nails to saw the boards, and finished the decorative cutwork with her tongue. -- Jennifer Crusie
I am fine, though it is hard to think of what kind of work to make at this point, other than decorative, escapist or abstract. I suppose I'll explore one or all of these things. -- Cindy Sherman
People do accuse me of being just decorative or an escapist - well I am. That's what I do. I am other things as well. I transcend the song and give it a different meaning. -- Klaus Nomi
No word meaning "art" occurs in Aivilik, nor does "artist": there are only people. Nor is any distinction made between utilitarian and decorative objects. The Aivilik say simply, "A man should do all things properly." -- Edmund Snow Carpenter
Religion must affirm, in the clearest terms, that morality and ethical values are not mere decorative frills of personal opinion, not subjective superstructure, but intrinsic laws of the cosmos built into the heart of reality. -- Bhikkhu Bodhi

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