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People think of me as a stereotype: muse, privileged, decorative. Classically, the muses were the inspiration. They'd come and go - they wouldn't actually make things, get their hands dirty. I don't think I'm a muse, although I think I can help pull a trigger. I really like getting my hands dirty.

~Amanda Harlech

Topics: Actually Although Come Come And Go Decorative Dirty Get Getting Go Hands Help Inspiration Like Make Me Muse Muses People Privileged Pull Really Stereotype Things Think Trigger Were I Think I Can

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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

Topics: Always Artist Beyond Decorative Facade Felt Get Going Seriously Take Vocation You

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A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory.

~Charles Horton Cooley

Topics: Avail Conviction Decorative Everything Fluency Grace Lack Like Logical Man May Merely Nothing Oratory Order Speaker Still Surface Tact Will Without

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Every decorative piece in this house is my feeling, my choice.

~Connie Stevens

Topics: Choice Decorative Every Feeling House Piece

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I love the journeys of research and discovery their development takes me on. I see prints as less 'decorative' than many might, and more fundamental to a garment's core.

~Dries Van Noten

Topics: Core Decorative Development Discovery Fundamental Garment Journeys Less Love Many Me Might More Prints Research See Takes Than I See I Love

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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

Topics: Appears Art Conception Contemporary Decorative Deny Ideal Lead Me Means Movements Painting Purely Seems Some Trend

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In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone.

~Gertrude Jekyll

Topics: Acquire Alone Also Arrangement Decorative Gain Garden Kinds Knowledge Only Other Perceiving Some Well Wisdom Work

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