#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

#decorative #distortion #institutional #intense #intimate

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

#art #conception #contemporary #decorative #deny

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

#conviction #decorative #everything #fluency #forcible

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

#concept #decorative #food #good #gotta

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

— Connie Stevens

#decorative #every #feeling #house #piece

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

— Ken Follett

#books #characters #decorative #masculine #often

My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter. ↗

— Gyorgy Ligeti

#decorative #grandfather #musician #painter

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

#body #brought #clothes #cover #cut

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

— Richard Brautigan

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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

#decorative #discovery #either #every #every time