Quotes About Ornamentation

Judas became the spokesman of all those who through the centuries would protest the ornamentation of the Christian cult and would feel that, when the best of gold and jewels were given to the God Who made them, there was some slight made to the poor - not because they were interested in the poor, but because they were envious of that wealth.

An enormous gleaming grand piano stood in the center, its legs decently masked.

They made houses so oddly back when Hill House was built, she thought; they put towers and turrets and buttresses and wooden lace on them, even sometimes Gothic spires and gargoyles; nothing was ever left undecorated.

Remember that the most beautiful things in life are often the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

Ornamentation, festoons, carvings, cartouches, bas-reliefs, countless surprises among the sculptures - and the tones of the facades weathered by time and rain, the pinks of fading twilight, smoky blues, misty greys, a richness of mildew, brickwork ripened by the years, the hues of a ruddy or anaemic complexion.

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

studied its architecture and intricate decoration

To grow up under really simple circumstances, and to understand that certain things were ornamental... that made an impression on me as a child and is something I use.

and she put a wreath of white lilies round her hair, but every petal of the flowers was half a pearl;

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.

Plumage features constitute a major component of courtship signals.

Non occorre dunque spiegare perchè il barocco trionfa in queste moderne architetture: un barocco che sotto l'influenza dello spagnolismo unito all'enfasi meridionale, gonfia le gote dei suoi mascheroni, moltiplica le cariatidi ed i puttini, distende ed allaccia i più pesanti festoni, aduna ed ammonticchia i più vistosi motivi decorativi. Barocche

Daggers have such beautiful, functional shapes, and decorating them is an ancient tradition.

But this first installation was by no means the last. Every year the Queen had some new fancy for beautifying her miniature kingdom with more highly artificial and more "natural" additions and alterations.

I love a bit of a sequin and a bead. I do, even though I usually wear trousers, when I put a frock on. I like a bead or a sequin.

I love accessorizing with jewelry.

I'd rather wear jewels in my hair than anywhere else. The face should have the advantage of this brilliance.

The odalisques he has studded with malachite and jasper, their flesh veiled with a thousand eyes, perfumed eyes dipped in the sperm of whales.

Kant fue criado como un "pietista", una versión del luteranismo que destacaba la simplicidad y evitaba la ornamentación externa. Consecuentemente no tenía retratos o pinturas en ninguna de las paredes de su casa, con una excepción: sobre su escritorio en su estudio colgó un retrato de Rousseau[39], y escribió: "He aprendido a honrar

Once the wonders of space are opened up to a Guild Navigator's mind, what other decorations are necessary? How can any ornamentation rival the wonders a Navigator sees on a single journey through foldspace? The universe, brother! The whole universe." C'tair nodded, conceding the point. "All right

Get your priorities straight, young man. When a victim is staring at a blade that has just plunged through his chest, the last thing on his mind is criticism about the lack of ornamentation on your hilt.

But the helmet had gold decoration, and the bespoke armorers had made a new gleaming breastplate with useless gold ornamentation on it. Sam Vimes felt like a class traitor every time he wore it. He hated being thought of as one of those people that wore stupid ornamental armor. It was gilt by association.

The plain old Sam Vimes had fought back. He got rid of most of the plumes and the stupid tights, and ended up with a dress uniform that at least looked as though its owner was male. But the helmet had gold decoration, and the bespoke armourers had made a new, gleaming breastplate with useless gold ornamentation on it. Sam Vimes felt like a class traitor every time he wore it. He hated being thought of as one of those people that wore stupid ornamental armour. It was gilt by association.

the beauty of human sexuality by enhancing the draw of seduction through ornamentation and cosmetics. It was a particular talent of hers to twist a good thing into something bad. Women and men learned how to advertise more clearly the availability of their bodies for the fulfillment of illicit desires in violation of Elohim's bigoted exclusionary marriage covenant.