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- Nov 07, 2020
Decorative Quotes
Where decoration meets serious craft.
These quotes explore decorative Art across disciplines - the Bauhaus dream of erasing any line between monumental and merely decorative work.
- Last Updated on Jul 30, 2026
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ultimate, if distant, aim of the Bauhaus is the unified work of art - the great structure - in which there is no distinction between monumental and decorative art.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the reasons I love to come to Paris is because the decorative arts are so refined that I am always walking through one proscenium into another frame.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.
- Handsome
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Chrysler
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Grandfather
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020