Elsie de Wolfe Quotes About House

Quotes about: House

• You will express yourself in your house whether you want to or not.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Home, House, Want

  Elsie De Wolfe (1975). “The house in good taste”, Ayer Co Pub

• I am going in now for interior decoration. By that I mean supplying objets d'art and giving advice regarding the decoration of their houses to wealthy persons who do not have the time, inclination, nor culture to do such work for themselves. It is nothing new. Women have done the same thing before.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Art, Mean, Giving

  Penny Sparke, Elsie De Wolfe (2005). “Elsie De Wolfe: The Birth of Modern Interior Decoration”, Acanthus PressLlc

• A house should be a synthesis of comfort, practicality, and tradition.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  House, Comfort, Synthesis

• I know of nothing more significant than the awakening of men and women throughout our country to the desire to improve their houses. Call it what you will - awakening, development, American Renaissance - it is a most startling and promising condition of affairs.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Country, Men, House

  Elsie De Wolfe (1975). “The house in good taste”, Ayer Co Pub

• I can't paint. I can't write. I can't sing. But I can decorate and run a house, and light it, and heat it, and have it like a living thing.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Running, Writing, Light

• There never has been a house so bad that it couldn't be made over into something worthwhile.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  House, Made, Worthwhile

• What is the goal? A house that is like the life that goes with it, a house that gives us beauty as we understand it- and beauty of a nobler kind that we may grow to understand.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Giving, Goal, House

  Elsie De Wolfe (1975). “The house in good taste”, Ayer Co Pub

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