“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.”
Ernest Hemingway book Death in the Afternoon
Source: Death in the Afternoon (1932), Ch. 16
Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb in thier common 'Manifesto', New York Times, 13 June 13, 1943; republished in: Stella Paul (1999), Twentieth-Century Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 159
1940 - 1950
“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.”
Ernest Hemingway book Death in the Afternoon
Source: Death in the Afternoon (1932), Ch. 16
Antonin Scalia (1936–2016) former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Lee v. Weisman (1992, dissenting) ; decided June 24, 1992
1990s
Spencer W. Kimball (1895–1985) President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Source: The Miracle of Forgiveness
“It's not possible to forget pictures. Anyone who works in them thinks of them constantly.”
Irene Dunne (1898–1990) American actress
How To Get Along In Hollywood (1948)
“Bucky: "Hello, Caller, Do you have an interior decorating problem I can help you with?"”
Darby Conley (1970) American cartoonist
Groovitude, page 172
Bucky Katt, Dialogue
Roger Ebert (1942–2013) American film critic, author, journalist, and TV presenter
Review http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/north-1994 of North (22 July 1994) <br class="br">Reviews, Zero star reviews
Viktor Schauberger (1885–1958) austrian philosopher and inventor
Viktor Schauberger: Our Senseless Toil (1934)
Antonin Scalia (1936–2016) former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
But interior decorating is a rock hard science compared to psychology practiced by amateurs.
Lee v. Weisman (1992, dissenting); decided June 24, 1992.
1990s
“Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them.”
Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)
"In the Cause of Architecture", in The Architectural Record (March 1908)
“Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.”
William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Romantic poet
This is only a slightly misquoted version of "Pictures deface walls oftener than they decorate them", written by Frank Lloyd Wright in the magazine Architectural Record in March 1908.
Misattributed