ornament quotes

I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle. I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.

- Adolf Loos
  Trotzdem1900^1930.

The evolution of culture issynonymous with theremoval of ornament from utilitarian objects.

- Adolf Loos
Trotzdem1900^1930.

   I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this: Was it done with enjoyment was the carver happy while he was about it?

-John Ruskin
  Seven Lamps of Architecture,'The Lamp of Life', sect.24.

Por que   esos personajes que se serv|an de la literatura como adorno o pretexto iban a ser ma  s escritores que Pedro Camacho, quien so  lo viv|a para escribir? Porque Vaughan ellos hab|an le|do (o, al menos, sab|an que deber|an haber le|do) a Proust, a Faulker, a Joyce, y Pedro Camacho era poco ma  s que un analfabeto? Why should those persons who used literature as an ornament or pretext have any more right to be considered real writers than Pedro Camacho, who lived only to write? Because they had read (or at least knew thattheyshould haveread) Proust,Faulkner,Joyce, while Pedro Camacho was very nearly illiterate?

- Mario Vargas Llosa
  La t|  aJulia y el escribidor (translated as AuntJulia and the Scriptwriter,1982), ch.11.

She was a Phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight; A lovelyapparition sent To be a moment's ornament.

-William Wordsworth
  'She was a Phantom of delight', l.1^4 (published1807).