Decorative Arts Quotes

#1. I didn't originally intend to be an artist; I was much more interested in decorative arts--daily life, beautiful objects.

Helaine Posner

#2. 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.

Ralph Gibson

#3. 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.

Martin Filler

#4. I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.

Oscar Wilde

#5. Wall-to-wall masterpieces, after all, ought to be preferred to wall-to-wall decorative arts, even if the decorative arts are of the highest quality peppered and salted with dukes and tiaras.

Joseph Alsop

#6. I really wish that we had passed a comprehensive immigration bill because that would've really helped our country.

Condoleezza Rice

#7. Sex in a dance is in the eyes of the beholder. I never thought my dances sexy. I suppose that's because I see myself with my face washed, and to me I look like a rabbit.

Gwen Verdon

#8. What clouds may wet the gaze without hope of emptiness within us?

Sorin Cerin

#9. It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.

Max Beerbohm

#10. You can drastically increase your chances for success if you try lots of things and bring the best forward.

Jonah Peretti

#11. There should be more of an off-season in the game. I think you need to have less tournaments, more of a break at the end of the year so guys can recover.

Pete Sampras

#12. Sometimes we need the salt of tears to remind us how to savor the sweetness of life.

Lysa TerKeurst

#13. Write her a letter, send her a flower, love only gets old if you let it.

William Chapman

#14. I like a lot of talk in a book and I don't like to have nobody tell me what the guy that's talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks.

John Steinbeck

#15. Then occurred a rare thing about which men and women sometimes dream. They carried on a full conversation in complete silence, discerning feelings, plans, exclamations, jokes, opinions, laughter, and dreams- rapidly, silently, inexplicably.

Mark Helprin

#16. A day is nothing. A day is just a match you strike after the ten thousand matches before it have gone out." He

Adam Johnson

#17. For me there is no gap between my painting and my so-called 'decorative' work. I never considered the 'minor arts' to be artistically frustrating; on the contrary, it was an extension of my art.

Sonia Delaunay

#18. I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves. It is futile to argue as to which leaf, which design of branches, or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the root, you understand all its blossoming.

Bruce Lee

#19. To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.

George Bernard Shaw

#20. Life is the best and only timekeeper.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#21. The arts are the only things that separate us from the other animals. The arts are not decorative ... They are essential to our comprehension of consciousness and ourselves.

Edward Albee

#22. Readers have the power that professors pretend they wield. Millions of words of professorial contempt have failed to kill Kipling. Praising Shaw to the skies has been vain.

Gene Wolfe