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Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art. -- John Ruskin
If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation? -- Chanakya
While I tend to keep embellishment minimal as my clients often possess some of the finest jewellery, I enjoy creating ornamentation that appears like installations, to compliment the overall look. -- Stephane Rolland
Artistic tricks divert from the effect that an artist endeavors to produce, and even excellent elements such as bullets, arrows, brackets, ornate initials, are at best superficial ornamentation unless logically employed. -- Paul Rand
In a very simple sense I want everything that's in a work to be there for the reason that it's needed. It's not an ornamentation. It's not there because I thought it looked nice but because it has to be there. -- Paul Cullen
Down below the broad, roaring waves of the sea break against the deep foundation of the rock. But high above the mountain, the sea, and the peaks of rock the eternal ornamentation blooms silently from the dark depths of the universe. -- Rudolf Otto
Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation -- Frank Lloyd Wright
Lack of ornamentation is a sign of spiritual strength. -- Adolf Loos
A building without ornamentation is like a heaven without stars. -- George Sandys
We want to create the purely organic building, boldly emanating its inner laws, free of untruths or ornamentation. -- Walter Gropius
...The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity ... the ability to express the utmost with the minimum. It is the halfway cultivation that leads to ornamentation... -- Bruce Lee
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
Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possessan instinct for the secondary role. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Science offends the modesty of all real women. It makes them feel as though it were an attempt to peek under their skin--or, worseyet, under their dress and ornamentation! -- Friedrich Nietzsche
What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent weakens--when he stops showing what he can do. Talent, too, is ornamentation, and ornamentation, too, is a hiding place. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
When I behold the passion for ornamentation, and the corresponding power, I feel as if women had so far shown what they are bad for, rather than what they are good for. -- Julia Ward Howe

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