Elsie de Wolfe Quotes - Page 2

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• We cannot do better than to accept the standards of other times, and to adapt them to our uses.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Design, Use, Accepting

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

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• No one chair should be isolated.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Furniture, Chairs, Should

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

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• I opened the doors and windows of America, and let the air and sunshine in.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Sunshine, Air, Doors

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• [At first sight of the Acropolis:] It's beige! My color!

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Sight, Color, Acropolis

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• I believe in plenty of optimism and white paint.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Believe, White, Optimism

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

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• You can't take it with you. There are no pockets in a shroud.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Design, Pockets, Interior Design

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• 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

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• I was not ugly. I might never be anything for men to lose their heads about, but I need never again be ugly. This knowledge was like a song within me. Suddenly it all came together. If you were healthy, fit, and well-dressed, you could be attractive.

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  Song, Men, Healthy

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• No, I don't take soup. You can't build a meal on a lake.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Food, Lakes, Cooking

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• Never, under any circumstance, do I touch soup, as I do not believe in building a meal on a lake.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Believe, Lakes, Meals

  Elsie De Wolfe (1974). “After all”, Ayer Co Pub

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• To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule of grammar.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Writing, Design, Style

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• This is the age of the apartment. Not only in the great cities, but in the smaller centers of civilization the apartment has come to stay. ... A decade ago the apartment was considered a sorry makeshift in America, though it has been successful abroad for more years than you would believe.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Sorry, Believe, Home

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

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