Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper. — Ettore Sottsass
Adornment is never anything except a reflection of the heart. — Coco Chanel
I only like decoration if it plays second to the architecture of a dress. — Madeleine Vionnet
But the building's identity resided in the ornament. — Louis Sullivan
The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity. — Mahatma Gandhi
Lack of ornamentation is a sign of spiritual strength. — Adolf Loos
Decoration is really about creating a quality of life, and a beauty in that life that nourishes the soul, that makes life beautiful. — Albert Hadley
Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments. — Munshi Premchand
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals. — John Ruskin
Swirls of antique stained glass, blazes of brass, forests of carved wood and waterfalls of crystal combine to make up the city's most fabulously festive interior. — Mimi Sheraton
Austerity is an ornament, humility is honorable. — Indian Proverbs
Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture. — Peter York
Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art. — Albrecht Durer
Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind. — Elizabeth Aston
The hair is the richest ornament of women. — Martin Luther
I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament. — Alanis Morissette
The ornaments of our homes are the friends that visit it — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue. — Joseph Addison
Straight lines vary only in length, and therefore are least ornamental. — William Hogarth
Ornamentation Image Quotes
The ornament of a house is the friend who frequent it.
Inspirational Quotes
Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there. — David Bowie
One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life. — Kahlil Gibran
Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly — Paulo Coelho
Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE. — Winston Churchill
I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it! Don't sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them. — Madam C. J. Walker
Every day may not be good... but there's something good in every day — Alice Morse Earle
Decoration Quotes
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. — Philippe Starck
So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. — Jorge Luis Borges
A Christian should resemble a fruit tree with real fruit, not a Christmas tree with decorations tied on — John Stott
Design is not about decorating functional forms - it is about creating forms that accord with the character of the object and that show new technologies to advantage. — Peter Behrens
The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help. — Jimmy Page
We don't wear sequins because we think we're great. We wear them because we think sequins are great. — Gram Parsons
Grace was not given to heal the spiritually sick but to decorate spiritual heroes! — Martin Luther
The finest thing about a hobby is that you can't do any pretending about it. You either like it or you don't. — Dorothy Draper
My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing. — Candace Bushnell
Adornment Quotes
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. — H. L. Mencken
No one has ever been accused for not providing ornaments, but for those who neglect their neighbour a hell awaits with an inextinguishable fire and torment in the company of the demons. Do not, therefore, adorn the church and ignore your afflicted brother, for he is the most precious temple of all. — Saint John Chrysostom
The costume of women should be suited to her wants and necessities. It should conduce at once to her health, comfort, and usefulness; and, while it should not fail also to conduce to her personal adornment, it should make that end of secondary importance — Amelia Bloomer
The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn. — Robert Burns
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. — Mary Wollstonecraft
It is not your outward appearance that you should beautify, but your soul, adorning it with good works. — Clement of Alexandria
Water is the mother of the vine, the nurse and fountain of fecundity, the adorner and refresher of the world. — Charles MacKay
The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as a trade secret of Paleontology. Evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data only at the tips and nodes of their branches; the rest is inference, however reasonable, not the evidence of fossils. — Stephen Jay Gould
The costume of women should be suited to her wants and needs. — Amelia Bloomer
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly. — Epictetus
Ornate Quotes
Venice never quite seems real, but rather an ornate film set suspended on the water. — Frida Giannini
[Seeing an ornately chained Native American for the first time] What Eden have they torn you from? — Cesare Borgia
No flower is happy in a vase, because vase is nothing but an ornate coffin for the flower. — Mehmet Murat Ildan
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
I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it. — Coco Chanel
The worshipful father and first founder and embellisher of ornate eloquence in our English, I mean Master Geoffrey Chaucer. — William Caxton
My contention is that that style is just as stylized as an ornate style. — Rick Moody
It was at this time that she entirely gave up on reading. The covers of books looked like coffins to her, either shabby or ornate, and what was inside them might as well have been dust. — Alice Munro
Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity. — Christian Nevell Bovee
I don't like my men to be too ornate. I like them to stand back and let their women shine, and they should really wear the pants in the relationship. — Eva Mendes
Acquire knowledge. It enables its possessor to distinguish right from wrong; it lights the way to Heaven; it is our friend in the desert, our society in solitude, our companion when friendless; it guides us to happiness; it sustains us in misery; it is an ornament among our friends and an armor against enemies. — Elijah Muhammad
On the meeting point of two worlds, the ornament of Turkish homeland, the treasure of Turkish history, the city cherished by the Turkish nation, İstanbul, has its place in the hearts of all citizens. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
We want to create the purely organic building, boldly emanating its inner laws, free of untruths or ornamentation. — Walter Gropius
Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich. — Diogenes
As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression. — Karl Philipp Moritz
Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way. — Charles Kingsley
I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it. — Joseph Addison
Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every shrub and tree has its gall, oftentimes esteemed its chief ornament and hardly to be distinguished from the fruit. If misery loves company, misery has company enough. Now, at midsummer, find me a perfect leaf or fruit. — Henry David Thoreau
In religions which have lost their creative spark, the gods eventually become no more than poetic motifs or ornaments for decorating human solitude and walls. — Nikos Kazantzakis
The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture. — George Saunders
It was darn nigh impossible for women in rock in the '70s. There wasn't a mold if you were a woman and you were in the entertainment in the '70s. You were probably a disco diva or a folk singer, or simply ornamental. Radio would play only one woman per hour. — Ann Wilson
The hood ornament on your car is for telling you where you're going. The rear-view-mirror is for showing you how good you look while you're getting there. — David Lee
When the Christians, upon these occasions, received martyrdom, they were ornamented, and crowned with garlands of flowers; for which they, in heaven, received eternal crowns of glory. — John Foxe
You don't need candlelight and fireside glow to make Christmas happen. Trees, ornaments, gifts, and all of it are splendid embellishments. Not necessary, but so very nice. It's Him...It's priceless to discover the pleasure of His company...May your home know something of all this glory during these days. — Jack W. Hayford
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
Therefore, I bind these lies and slanderous accusations to my person as an ornament; it belongs to my Christian profession to be vilified, slandered, reproached and reviled, and since all this is nothing but that, as God and my conscience testify, I rejoice in being reproached for Christ's sake. — John Bunyan
Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some for ornament and reputation; some for victory and contention; many for lucre and a livelihood; and but few for employing the Divine gift of reason to the use and benefit of mankind. — Francis Bacon
The music, and the banquet, and the wine-- The garlands, the rose odors, and the flowers, The sparkling eyes, and flashing ornaments-- The white arms and the raven hair--the braids, And bracelets; swan-like bosoms, and the necklace, An India in itself, yet dazzling not. — Lord Byron
The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament. — Igor Stravinsky
The very design of the gospel doth tend to self-abasing; and the work of grace is begun and carried on in humiliation. Humility is not a mere ornament of a Christian, but an essential part of the new creature: it is a contradiction to be a sanctified man, or a true Christian, and not humble. — Richard Baxter
Architecture has its political Use; publick Buildings being the Ornament of a Country; it establishes a Nation, draws People and Commerce; makes the People love their native Country, which Passion is the Original of all great Actions in a Common-wealth.... Architecture aims at Eternity. — Christopher Wren
Do not be afraid of large patterns, if properly designed they are more restful to the eye than small ones: on the whole, a pattern where the structure is large and the details much broken up is the most useful...very small rooms, as well as very large ones, look better ornamented with large patterns. — William Morris
We may not preach a crucified Savior without being also crucified men and women. It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. The cross that Paul speaks about was burned into his very flesh, was branded into his being, and only the Holy Spirit can burn the true cross into our innermost life. — A. B. Simpson
I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle. I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament. — Adolf Loos
Conceit, more rich in matter than in words,
Brags of his substance, not of ornament:
They are but beggars that can count their worth;
But my true love is grown to such excess,
I cannot sum up half my sum of wealth. — William Shakespeare
Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture. — Amos Bronson Alcott
All art is erotic. The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin. It was the first work of art. A horizontal stroke: the woman lying down. A vertical stroke: the male who penetrates her. — Adolf Loos
We want to live at any price; so we cannot burden ourselves with feelings which, though they might be ornamental enough in peace-time, would be out of place here. — Erich Maria Remarque
The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes. — Napoleon Bonaparte
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