Top Decorative Quotes
I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade.
Anish Kapoor
Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative.
Ken Follett
I don't want my daughter to be educated. I think women should just be decorative.
Richard Brautigan
And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything.
Josef Albers
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
Josef Albers 
Richard Brautigan 
Anish Kapoor 
Gyorgy Ligeti 
Ken Follett 
Edward Hopper 
Max Ernst 
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I've always felt that if one was going to take seriously this vocation as an artist, you have to get beyond that decorative facade.
Anish Kapoor 
54% of people like this quote
Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative.
Ken Follett
53% of people like this quote
I don't want my daughter to be educated. I think women should just be decorative.
Richard Brautigan
52% of people like this quote
And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything.
Josef Albers
48% of people like this quote
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
48% of people like this quote
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
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My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.
Gyorgy Ligeti
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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
46% of people like this quote