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Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration. — E. M. Forster

A formally harmonious product needs no decoration; it should be elevated through pure form. — Ferdinand Porsche

Books aren't for decoration, they are to improve the design of one's interior. — Karen A. Chase

Music is nothing more than decoration for the imagination. That — Elizabeth Gilbert

Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it's decoration. — Jeffrey Zeldman

[Heraclitus' language] dispenses with lightness and artificial decoration, foremost out of disgust for humanity and out of [his own] defiant feeling. — Friedrich Nietzsche

No decoration
can compare in loveliness;
a perfect flower — Frances Watts

Prayer is not a pious decoration of life but the breath of human existence. — Henri Nouwen

Audience boredom is usually a content failure, not a decoration failure. — Edward Tufte

I'm just not very interested in decoration. — Phoebe Philo

Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. — Ernest Hemingway,

The Gospel is not reformation, decoration or renovation. It is liberation. — Reinhard Bonnke

I think there is always a need for pure design. With pure design, you don't need so much decoration. — Jil Sander

No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy. — Pablo Picasso

The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help. — Jimmy Page

Beautiful girls are not a decoration, arm candy, an object. They are, whether they know it or not, the very essence of our humanity. — Chloe Thurlow

The mask means to me: freshness of color, sumptuous decoration, wild unexpected gestures, very shrill expressions, exquisite turbulence. — James Ensor

Two hallmarks of Homo Sapiens are decoration and self-identification. — Carl Zimmer

I've been amazed at how often those outside the discipline of design assume that what designers do is decoration. Good design is problem solving. — Jeffrey Veen

She well knew the great architectural secret of decorating her constructions, and never descended to construct a decoration. — Anthony Trollope

She was all the rage with giant decoration. Who knew — Chris Colfer

Nobody's so damn well educated that you can't learn ninety per cent of what he knows in six weeks. The other ten per cent is decoration. — Kurt Vonnegut

I like you. Therefore I will decorate you with qualities you don't have. — Aleksandra Ninkovic

Interior decoration partly thrives on being social. — Nicholas Haslam

You might be a redneck if an expired license plate means another decoration for your living room wall. — Jeff Foxworthy

It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. — A.B. Simpson

How exquisite life had once been! How gorgeous in its pomp and decoration! Even to read of the luxury of the dead was wonderful. — Oscar Wilde

Laws change so often it seems pointless to keep track of the fiddly ones. 'Don't kill' is the big one. Everything else is moral decoration. — T.W. Brown

Content informs design; design without content is decoration. — Jeffrey Zeldman

Decoration can be a state of mind, an unusual perception, a ritual whisper. — Ettore Sottsass

Decoration is just make-up for the wrinkles of the idea. — Thomas Manss

Casual sex. Nothing more. Nothing Less. That line wasn't there for decoration, and it was in bold print for a reason. — Whitney Gracia Williams

After the design is firmly fixed, the decoration is added. Decorating is the final enhancement. — Albert Hadley

our mission does not consist in our appearance, a beautiful haircut or in showing off our body, decorations and clothes — Sunday Adelaja

Honor without power was a useless decoration and power without honor was the simple flexing of muscle — H.J. Brues

I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague. — Fernando Pessoa

If proportion is the good breeding of architecture, symmetry, or the answering of one part to another, may be defined as the sanity of decoration. — Edith Wharton

truth and falsehood mingle in life - and to what God builds, man adds his own decoration. — Rabindranath Tagore

Painting isn't made for the decoration of apartments; it is a weapon to be used offensively and defensively against the enemy. — Pablo Picasso

The thought of herself as decoration was absurd. — Patricia Briggs

So I'm just here for decoration?"
"Be grateful I consider you a worthy accessory. — Sarah J. Maas

The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm is one of the most inveterate of human instincts. -The Decoration of Houses — Edith Wharton

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

Being in war itself is a gallant, awards are mere decorations. — Pushpa Rana

My pockets had always puzzled Weena, but at the last she had concluded that they were an eccentric kind of vase for floral decoration. — H.G.Wells

How could I describe our relationship even to myself without either disparaging it or insulting it with the tawdry decoration of sentimentality? — Olaf Stapledon

The bed is just a decoration in a busy man's bedroom. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Maybe my limbs are made
mostly for decoration,
like the way I feel about
persimmons. — Ada Limon

Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty. — Bruce Lee

As far as I could tell, Claude's benefit to the world was strictly as a decoration.
-Sookie — Charlaine Harris

Being a winner is more than getting a first place trophy, it is acting like the effort was an honour and the trophy is just a decoration. — Bryan Mosley

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

I was promoted to be a major, and every Allied government gave me a decoration - even Montenegro, little Montenegro down on the Adriatic Sea! — F Scott Fitzgerald

Practice design, Not Decoration: Don't just make pretty talking points. Instead, display information in a way that makes complex information clear. — Nancy Duarte

Remember, having a good head on our shoulders is not just for decoration purposes — Sunday Adelaja

Do you think that the Lord gave them to me for a decoration? — Alice Von Hildebrand

Real fashion change comes from real changes in real life. Everything else is just decoration. — Tom Ford

Music is interior decoration. — Wayne Shorter

There are schools teaching 'stage decoration' as a subject, and they actually call it that. I say: 'Burn those schools!' — Robert Wilson

What is art? It is not decoration. It is the re-living of experience. — Rebecca West

Humorists of the 'mere' sort cannot survive. Humor is only a fragrance, a decoration. — Mark Twain

An important question to ask is, 'Where and when did decoration and utility first meet? — Edward J. Fraughton

I've been collecting crystals for many, many years for healing purposes and decoration. I guess since my name is Crystal, I have no choice. — Crystal Renn

A composer's job involves the decoration of fragments of time. — Frank Zappa

It is alright to decorate construction but never construct decoration. — Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

I've never used ethnic music as decoration for profit. — Bill Laswell

Yet he saw that in all places there was originality, resulting from the human efforts at decoration and ingenious methods of survival. — Michael D. O'Brien

I always think of music as interior decoration. So, if you have all kinds of music, you are fully decorated! — Wayne Shorter

She had been nothing but a beloved bauble passed from a mother to a son, a decoration of vanity, devoid of identity. — D. Morgenstern

I only like decoration if it plays second to the architecture of a dress, — Madeleine Vionnet

Cosmetic decoration, which frequently distorts the data, will never salvage an underlying lack of content. — Edward R. Tufte

Where utility ends and decoration begins is perfection. — Jack Gardner