Welcome to our collection of Decoration Quotes, where we celebrate the beauty, creativity, and inspiration that adorn our lives. Whether you’re seeking a touch of elegance for your home, a burst of color for your workspace, or simply some words of wisdom to brighten your day, you’ve come to the right place. From renowned designers to insightful thinkers, these quotes capture the essence of decoration in its myriad forms, offering insights that resonate with both the artistic soul and the practical decorator.
Decoration isn’t just about aesthetics; it’s about creating environments that reflect our personalities, passions, and aspirations. It’s about infusing spaces with meaning and purpose, turning the ordinary into the extraordinary, and transforming mere objects into vessels of expression. As you explore our curated selection of quotes, allow yourself to be inspired, to see the world through a lens of beauty and possibility, and to reimagine the spaces around you as canvases waiting to be adorned. Whether you’re embarking on a new design project or simply seeking a moment of inspiration, let these words serve as your guiding light. So without further ado, let’s delve into the world of Decoration Quotes and uncover the wisdom that awaits.
The reason why I wanted to direct is because there are personal stories that I want to tell, but also because I love every part of movie making – from the wardrobe to the set decoration to cinematography. Jason Momoa
Usually in theater, the visual repeats the verbal. The visual dwindles into decoration. But I think with my eyes. For me, the visual is not an afterthought, not an illustration of the text. If it says the same thing as the words, why look? The visual must be so compelling that a deaf man would sit though the performance fascinated. Robert Wilson
I never played the ‘decoration,’ I always played the one who suffered. And then I got very lucky in my middle career, when I started playing the hero, which at that point was quite rare for women. Tyne Daly
You couldn’t define the ’80s when the ’80s were happening. We kept changing. We had shoulder pads, then we didn’t. It was revealing, and then it was decoration. It was a lot of things at once. It was defined when it was over. Donatella Versace
I have a love for colorful things. I’m a fashion maximalist. I come from the school of people who look at the decoration in Marie Antoinette’s bedroom, and think ‘Why so reserved?’ Suzy Menkes
My point is, to emulate dead animals and their parts as decoration is pretty disgusting, and as a design statement, it also fills me with ennui. Hilary Farr
When I was little, I went to the Sahara desert and met an older woman with beautiful earrings that came all the way down to her stomach. She told me, ‘For us Tuareg, jewelry is not meant for decoration. It absorbs negative energy that comes your way.’ So think twice when you buy a vintage ring! Sofia Boutella
A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate imposes on them. Movie adaptations of these monumental fictions often fail because they become mere exercises in interior decoration. Richard Schickel
I was a product of the society that said women are for decoration, and I do think girls should be able to do whatever they want. Katherine Ryan
A formally harmonious product needs no decoration; it should be elevated through pure form. Ferdinand Porsche
When I was just starting out, I had two choices: I could be the beautiful girl on the main man’s arm as decoration, or I would have to do a little independent movie to get any depth in the female character. Madchen Amick
When I wrote those first songs for the Truckers, songs like ‘Outfit’ and ‘Decoration Day,’ those were strong songs, very strong songs. But had I been in the position of writing an entire album at that point in time, I don’t think the whole album would have been of that kind of quality. Jason Isbell
Plenty of successful women started either as an unrecognised grafter or as a bit of decoration to the side of the screen. Ulrika Jonsson
But, after all, the aim of art is to create space – space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live. Frank Stella
For as long as I could remember, the person in E23 pasted the same Halloween decoration, a witch with a giant wart on her crone’s nose, but whenever kids rang, the tenant wouldn’t answer. At first, kids figured they’d just missed the guy: bad timing. But it seemed impossible that all of us missed him every year. Victor LaValle
I wasn’t lucky enough to find a Chris Stein like Debbie Harry did. I was with Todd Rundgren… He was the star, I was the decoration. Bebe Buell
We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness. A. S. Byatt
Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away. Ismail Haniyeh
I worked at Bergdorf Goodman doing interior decoration. Andrew W.K.
I think of makeup as more like a design, decoration, or jewelry. I mean, it’s literally paint; it’s art. I don’t prefer to use it as concealing anything because it influences the illusion of standardized perfection. Indya Moore
I think taking design out of the studio and really having a relationship with the people that you’re making it for really convinced me of how powerful a thing design is. It’s not just an aesthetic decoration. Genevieve Gorder
I’ve never used ethnic music as decoration for profit. Bill Laswell
I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don’t need so much decoration. Jil Sander
From the late ’70s to the early ’90s, I wrote anything anybody would pay me for. This ranged from articles on how to clean a longhorn cow’s skull for living-room decoration to manuals on elementary math instruction on the Apple II… to a slew of software reviews and application articles done for the computer press. Diana Gabaldon
Growing up in Mexico, I have many fond memories of not only celebrating posadas with my family, but also of the time spent together menu planning and prepping for decoration and entertaining activities. A lot of work goes into celebrating these traditions, but that doesn’t mean they have to cost a lot too. Marcela Valladolid
Being a black lesbian myself, I roll my eyes a little bit when I see black lesbian characters on shows where it’s purely there for decoration. You can just hear it in the writers room… ‘What if we make her a lesbian?’ Lena Waithe
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
Interior decoration partly thrives on being social. Nicholas Haslam
I’m just not very interested in decoration. Phoebe Philo
Imagining themes that are specific to coating lines, shapes, shades, thoughts, the decoration of our homes and the objects of utility or pure pleasure, adapting its purpose in a material-specific way to metal or wood, marble or fabric – it is, without any doubt, an absorbing occupation. Emile Galle
Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration. E. M. Forster
I like interior decoration, so I might do something in that. I might, at some point, take two years off to study interior decoration. Sania Mirza
Art is freedom. If we don’t have that element, we don’t feel human anymore. Art is not decoration or a function. Before all that, art is art. This connection to meaning – our inner, intuitive knowledge – is something. Haris Pasovic
I love the architecture magazines and all of the French magazines for decoration or whatever. I end up enjoying them more sometimes than the fashion magazines. Francois Nars
There are schools teaching ‘stage decoration’ as a subject, and they actually call it that. I say: ‘Burn those schools!’ Robert Wilson
My biggest word of advice that I could give to people that are dealing with a home renovation or decoration is to not think about design as it’s been presented to you before. I think everybody needs to start designing based on the moments they imagine having in their home and that is what has guided me as a decorator. Jeremiah Brent
Songs like ‘Outfit’ and ‘Decoration Day’ and ‘Dress Blues,’ those were good songs, but the output wasn’t as consistent in those days. Jason Isbell
With its fluctuating forms and needless decoration, fashion epitomizes the supposedly unproductive waste that inspired 20th-century technocrats to dream of central planning. It exists for no good reason. But that’s practically a definition of art. Virginia Postrel
It’s great to have female characters that have depth that you can explore instead of being the decoration or the girlfriend or the wife. Madchen Amick
Once you find out that someone likes a certain game on Facebook, now you know what kind of virtual gift you can get them. You can send them a little decoration. Social games give you goals where you can help and reward your friends. Bing Gordon
When I was in my early twenties, I hoped one day to own a Victoria Cross, the ultimate decoration in Britain and the Commonwealth for bravery in the face of the enemy. Michael Ashcroft
Architecture is the beginning of something because it’s – if you’re not involved in first principles, if you’re not involved in the absolute, the beginning of that generative process, it’s cake decoration. Thom Mayne
I think that the essence of a Christmas wreath – of all Christmas vegetative decoration – has to be green and, if possible, living. So the basis of a wreath is ideally holly, laurel, ivy, rosemary, larch, fir or whatever is to hand. Monty Don
Before World War II, Modernist architects sometimes had to resort to custom fabrication or outright fakery to achieve the machine imagery advocated by the Bauhaus after its initial, Expressionist, phase. Stucco masqueraded as reinforced concrete; rivets were used for decoration. Martin Filler
For people like me, books are something solid and real, whereas digital stuff is a bit more ethereal. I like the trophy on my shelf, the presence in my home. A nice book is just as valuable as a decoration as a beautiful porcelain urn – and, let’s face it, a hell of a lot more useful. John Romaniello
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. Ernest Hemingway
There is no society ever discovered in the remotest corner of the world that has not had something that we would consider the arts. Visual arts – decoration of surfaces and bodies – appears to be a human universal. Steven Pinker
I am very good at decoration. I am maybe extremely good at decoration. Jocelyn Wildenstein
