Quotes About Ornamentation

#1. I think there is a profound and enduring beauty in simplicity; in clarity, in efficiency. True simplicity is derived from so much more than just the absence of clutter and ornamentation. It's about bringing order to complexity.

Jonathan Ive

#2. Artistic tricks divert from the effect that an artist endeavors to produce, and even excellent elements such as bullets, arrows, brackets, ornate initials, are at best superficial ornamentation unless logically employed.

Paul Rand

#3. In a very simple sense I want everything that's in a work to be there for the reason that it's needed. It's not an ornamentation. It's not there because I thought it looked nice but because it has to be there.

Paul Cullen

#4. Some elements appear in this picture which would be decisive in Klimt's subsequent work: for instance, the use of gold and the transformation of anatomy into ornamentation, of ornamentation into anatomy.

Gilles Neret

#5. Science offends the modesty of all real women. It makes them feel as though it were an attempt to peek under their skin
or, worseyet, under their dress and ornamentation!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#6. While I tend to keep embellishment minimal as my clients often possess some of the finest jewellery, I enjoy creating ornamentation that appears like installations, to compliment the overall look.

Stephane Rolland

#7. There were Palladian windows and a number of roof peaks and an assortment of architectural conceits, all overlooking a vast lawn devoid of ornamentation.

Robert B. Parker

#8. This isn't food." Bram picked up a lavender-iced cake between thumb and finger and stared at it. "This is ... edible ornamentation.

Tessa Dare

#9. When I behold the passion for ornamentation, and the corresponding power, I feel as if women had so far shown what they are bad for, rather than what they are good for.

Julia Ward Howe

#10. Lack of ornamentation is a sign of spiritual strength.

Adolf Loos

#11. Comparing man and woman on the whole, one may say: woman would not possess a genius for ornamentation if she did not also possessan instinct for the secondary role.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#12. Nature is the inspiration for all ornamentation

Frank Lloyd Wright

#13. A building without ornamentation is like a heaven without stars.

George Sandys

#14. I supposed that with her stunning beauty, she needed no ornamentation. It would have been like putting jewelry on a lion.

Sarah J. Maas

#15. I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, "Mamma, can I open the light?" She was using the age-old language of exploration, the language of art. It was a sort of metaphor, but she was not using it as ornamentation.

Ezra Pound

#16. mind Nell was writing: - ornamentation of neck, wrists, fingers - paint on face only

Lily King

#17. Ornamentation is the principal part of architecture, considered as a subject of fine art.

John Ruskin

#18. If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

Chanakya

#19. We want to create the purely organic building, boldly emanating its inner laws, free of untruths or ornamentation.

Walter Gropius

#20. What a person is begins to betray itself when his talent weakens
when he stops showing what he can do. Talent, too, is ornamentation, and ornamentation, too, is a hiding place.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#21. Down below the broad, roaring waves of the sea break against the deep foundation of the rock. But high above the mountain, the sea, and the peaks of rock the eternal ornamentation blooms silently from the dark depths of the universe.

Rudolf Otto

#22. The work resembles a breech delivery-one which is expressed in rhythmic lurches, stabs of phrase and vocal ornamentation designed to express agitation rather than decorative grace.

Wendell Phillips

#23. So you will see us continue to advance the state of the art or take information that we have in our response data bases and have that drive automation or an automated response by some of our products.

John W. Thompson

#24. She had taken London by storm - which was to say, as with any good storm, some people stayed indoors when they saw her coming.

Courtney Milan

#25. As frost, raised to its utmost intensity, produces the sensation of fire, so any good quality, overwrought and pushed to excess, turns into its own contrary.

William Matthews

#26. Your scheme must be the framework of the universe; all other schemes will soon be ruins.

Henry David Thoreau

#27. We both stood there, as if on the brink of a cliff, and I didn't know if I moved if I would fall to hell or soar to heaven.

Julianne Donaldson

#28. The entire money structure and materialistic society is a false society ...

Jacque Fresco

#29. If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'.

George Bernard Shaw

#30. If you die trying for something important, then you have both honor and courage, and that's pretty good.

Michael Oher

#31. Because there's beauty in the breakdown.

Imogen Heap

#32. It's harder to appreciate what you don't have to look hard to find.

Laura Dave