Decor Quotes

• I think décor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about the aesthetic way I have chosen to tell their story.

  Pedro Almodovar

  Thinking, Stories, Way

  "Interview", Volume 26, (p. 49), 1996.

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• But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better than paintings... That's not quite true!

  Norman MacCaig

  True Love, Nice, Book

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• I deeply believe that a beautiful decor can have a beneficial influence on our lives.

  Albert Hadley

  Beautiful, Believe, Interior Design

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• You create your own decoration. You choose your color, you choose your mood. ... If you are depressed, you put some bright yellow and suddenly you are happy.

  Philippe Starck

  Happy, Depression, Color

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• Labels don't really impress, it's the uniqueness and risk in decor that inspire.

  Bryan Batt

  Inspire, Risk, Labels

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• Design is not about decorating functional forms - it is about creating forms that accord with the character of the object and that show new technologies to advantage.

  Peter Behrens

  Character, Technology, Creating

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• I don't shop. I buy things that inspire me, that give me emotion.

  Giambattista Valli

  Giving, Inspire, Emotion

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• Make sure furniture decor has similar scale. It's all about scale, proportion, measuring, being conscious of the overall plan.

  Michael S. Smith

  Furniture, Conscious, Scales

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• Fashion and decor should amuse you and your friends.

  Lauren Santo Domingo

  Fashion, Should

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• Light, air, sound. In every space, it's how you embrace those things.

  Michael Gabellini

  Light, Air, Space

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• I'm all about exuberance. We only have one short life to live, and we shouldn't waste it being tasteful.

  Isaac Mizrahi

  Short Life, Waste, Exuberance

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• My favorite project is always the next one.

  Michael Graves

  Work, Design, Next

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• I would definitely bring silver into your holiday decor.

  Emily Henderson

  Holiday, Silver

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• I just don't like to settle. Good enough is never good enough.

  Josie Natori

  Never Good Enough, Settling, Good Enough

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• There are two things that make a room timeless: a sense of history and a piece of the future.

  Charlotte Moss

  Two, Pieces, Rooms

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• Nothing in a portrait is a matter of indifference. Gesture, grimace, clothing, decor even - all must combine to realize a character.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Character, Portraits, Portraiture

  Charles Baudelaire, Jonathan Mayne (1981). “Art in Paris 1845-1862: salons and other exhibitions”

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• When it comes to art, buy with your eyes, not your ears. I tried very hard not to 'decorate' with art. Art should be reflective of your personality and what's going on in your head-not reflective of the colors of a sofa.

  Jason Pomeranc

  Art, Eye, Color

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• Modesty is great, and quietness is nice, but sometimes it's much more fun to be decadent.

  Robin Standefer

  Fun, Nice, Modesty

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• I don't see boundaries between styles, such as modern or contemporary. I've collected each piece from a different experience or period of my life.

  Carlos Miele

  Different Experiences, Style, Pieces

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• What's the purpose of living in a loft if you put up walls?

  Naeem Khan

  Wall, Purpose, Ifs

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• At some time in the recent past someone had decided to brighten the ancient corridors of the University by painting them, having some vague notion that Learning Should Be Fun. It hadn’t worked. It’s a fact known throughout the universes that no matter how carefully the colors are chosen, institutional decor ends up as either vomit green, unmentionable brown, nicotine yellow or surgical appliance pink. By some little-understood process of sympathetic resonance, corridors painted in those colors always smell slightly of boiled cabbage—even if no cabbage is ever cooked in the vicinity.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fun, Past, Color

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.24, Harper Collins

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• The decor bowled me over. Everywhere I looked, there was something more to see. Botanical prints, a cross section of pomegranates, a passionflower vine and its fruit. Stacks of thick books on art and design and a collection of glass paperweights filled the coffee table. It was enormously beautiful, a sensibility I'd never encountered anywhere, a relaxed luxury. I could feel my mother's contemptuous gaze falling on the cluttered surfaces, but I was tired of three white flowers in a glass vase. There was more to life than that.

  Janet Fitch

  Beautiful, Mother, Art

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• Kitchens should be designed around what's truly important-fun, food, and life.

  Daniel Boulud

  Life, Fun, Food

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• Our kitchen is warm; it's who we are. And it has everything. Honestly, I could get rid of the rest of the house and just live in the kitchen.

  Ralph Lauren

  House, Kitchen, Who We Are

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• Better mendacities Than the classics in paraphrase! Some quick to arm, some for adventure, some from fear of weakness, some from fear of censure, some for love of slaughter, in imagination, learning later . . . some in fear, learning love of slaughter; Died some, pro patria, non "dulce" non "et decor" . walked eye-deep in hell believing in old men's lies, the unbelieving came home, home to a lie.

  Ezra Pound

  Fear, Lying, Believe

  'Hugh Selwyn Mauberley' (1920) 'E. P. Ode pour l'èlection de son sèpulcre' pt. 4

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