Interior Design Quotes

• The essence of interior design will always be about people and how they live.

  Albert Hadley

  Essence, People, Design

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• Decorating is not about making stage sets, it's not about making pretty pictures for the magazines, it's really about creating a quality of life, a beauty that nourishes the soul.

  Albert Hadley

  Creating, Soul, Quality

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• We shape our homes and then our homes shape us.

  Winston Churchill

  Home, Shapes, Inspirational Design

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• Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, Business, Work

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.37, Prabhat Prakashan

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

  Albert Hadley

  Beautiful, Believe, Influence

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• Simplicity, suitability and proportion.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Simplicity, Design, Proportion

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

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• Remember, color is not just color, but mood, temperature and structure.

  Van Day Truex

  Color, Design, Temperature

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• The whole point of interior design is about creating environments where people can really live their lives and where you can connect with your friends and family.

  Vern Yip

  Creating, People, Design

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• There seems to be within all of us an innate yearning to be lifted momentarily out of our own lives into the realm of charm and make believe.

  Dorothy Draper

  Life, Dream, Believe

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• Have you ever noticed how some rooms exude a certain energy, warmth, and a harmony of spirit? If you have, then you have experienced the language of the home. A language softly spoken, and univerally understood.

  Charlotte Moss

  Home, Design, Energy

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• What we remember most about rooms we like is the 'atmosphere.'

  Charlotte Moss

  Design, Atmosphere, Rooms

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• Decorating is like music. Harmony is what we constantly strive for. At home, we want a peaceful atmosphere where the objects are the notes and nothing is off-key.

  Charlotte Moss

  Home, Keys, Design

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• Design is defined by light and shade, and appropriate lighting is enormously important.

  Albert Hadley

  Light, Design, Important

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• There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful.

  William Morris

  Beautiful, Design, No Excuses

  May Morris, William Morris, Bernard Shaw (1936). “William Morris: artist, writer, socialist”

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• An interior designer must be able to clarify his intent keeping ever in mind that decorating is not a look, it's a point of view.

  Albert Hadley

  Views, Design, Mind

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• The essence of interior design will always be about people and how they live. It is about the realities of what makes for an attractive, civilized, meaningful environment, not about fashion or what's in or what's out. This is not an easy job.

  Albert Hadley

  Motivational, Meaningful, Fashion

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• You don't sell a commodity, you sell joy, gaiety, excitement. You aim at people's hearts, not their minds.

  Dorothy Draper

  Heart, People, Design

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• Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

  William Morris

  Life, Happiness, Beauty

  Hopes and Fears for Art "The Beauty of Life" (1882)

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• One sits more comfortably on a colour that one likes.

  Verner Panton

  Color, Sitting, Hue

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• For a house to be successful, the objects in it must communicate with one another, respond to and balance one another

  Andree Putman

  Successful, House, Balance

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• Interiors speak! Rooms emphasize whether one exists or lives, and there is a great difference between the two!

  Van Day Truex

  Two, Differences, Design

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• Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context - a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan.

  Eliel Saarinen

  Cities, House, Design

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• If every piece is perfect the room becomes a museum and lifeless.

  Nancy Lancaster

  Museums, Perfect, Pieces

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• In design, Mother Nature is our best teacher.

  Van Day Truex

  Mother, Teacher, Design

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• Design is coming to grips with one’s real lifestyle, one’s real place in the world. Rooms should not be put together for show but to nourish one’s wellbeing.

  Albert Hadley

  Real, Design, Together

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