Interior Design Quotes - Page 4

• Life is all about manners. Nothing else matters.

  Albert Hadley

  Matter, Life Is, Manners

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• ... our objects, bibelots, whatnots, and knickknacks-say the most about who we are. They are as honest as a diary.

  Charlotte Moss

  Design, Diaries, Who We Are

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• All the necessary elements of a room should not arrive on installation day. Room should always be left for the things we will acquire...the objects we cannot live without.

  Charlotte Moss

  Design, Elements, Rooms

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• A pattern is either right or wrong...it is no stronger than its weakest point.

  William Morris

  Design, Stronger, Patterns

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.110, Cambridge University Press

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• I don't believe anything can do as much for a room as a glowing fire in an attractive fireplace. Men and dogs love an open fire - they show good sense. It is the heart of any room and should be kindled on the slightest provocation.

  Dorothy Draper

  Dog, Believe, Heart

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• You may concentrate on appearances all through the rest of your house, but in the bedroom comfort should be supreme. I think that bedrooms should also be very intimate rooms-they should express your personal preferences in every way...Of all the rooms in the house your bedroom is yours.

  Dorothy Draper

  Thinking, House, Comfort

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• Too much of what passes for design now is theater. It's one thing to be eccentric- and by the way, most eccentrics tend to be rather well-educated people - and quite another to be a faddist, by which I mean someone who tries to conjure a totally foreign aesthetic in a misplaced environment.

  Albert Hadley

  Mean, People, Design

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• Do not be afraid of large patterns, if properly designed they are more restful to the eye than small ones: on the whole, a pattern where the structure is large and the details much broken up is the most useful...very small rooms, as well as very large ones, look better ornamented with large patterns.

  William Morris

  Eye, Small Rooms, Broken

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• An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.

  John Ruskin

  Inspirational, Men, Greatest Love

  John Ruskin (1872). “The Two Paths: Being Lectures on Art, and Its Application to Decoration and Manufacture, Delivered in 1858-9”, p.38

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• In restoring a house one must first realize its period, feel its personality and try to bring out its good points.

  Nancy Lancaster

  House, Design, Personality

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• Training the eye is the most important way to gain an appreciation and understanding of good design in busienss management.

  Van Day Truex

  Appreciation, Eye, Design

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• It is important to realize that whatever we do or design has iconographic references, it comes from somewhere; any form is always metaphorical, never totally metaphysical; it is never a 'destiny' but always a fact with some kind of historical reference. To put an object on a base means to monumentalize it, to make everyone aware it exists.

  Ettore Sottsass

  Mean, Destiny, Design

  Barbara Radice, Ettore Sottsass (1993). “Ettore Sottsass: A Critical Biography”, Rizzoli International Publications

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• All those lessons that I've learned on the court, I have applied them to my life outside of the court in business, my company, called V Starr interiors, an interior design company, and EleVen, which I wear on court.

  Venus Williams

  Design, Lessons, I've Learned

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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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• Don't think too much of style.

  William Morris

  Thinking, Design, Style

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.168, Cambridge University Press

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• There is nothing more trite than a period room imposed on a contemporary setting.

  Van Day Truex

  Design, Rooms, Periods

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• In my house there is no attempt whatever to secure harmonies of colour, or form, or furniture.... I am entirely independent for daily happiness upon the sensual qualities of form or colour-when I want them I take them either from the sky or from the fields.

  John Ruskin

  Independent, Sky, House

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• Never look back, except for an occasional glance, look ahead and plan for the future. Success is not built on past laurels, but rather on a continuous activity. Keep busy searching out new ideas and, experimentally, keep ahead of the times, or at least up with them.

  Dorothy Draper

  Moving On, Success, Perseverance

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• It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Happiness, Home, Men

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

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• Control, edit and distill.

  Van Day Truex

  Design, Edits

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• How obvious it is that color has its various connotations-hue, value, and intensity - and without the basic understanding of these three determining factors, we are somewhat limited in the proper use of color in rooms.

  Van Day Truex

  Color, Design, Understanding

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• A good decorator not only plans and schemes, but he also knows how the job is done.

  Albert Hadley

  Jobs, Done, Schemes

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• Flair is a primitive kind of style. It is innate and cannot be taught. It can be polished and refined. When a person has flair, a grounding in the principle of design, and self-discipline, that person has the potential of being an outstanding designer.

  Albert Hadley

  Self, Discipline, Design

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• Scale is of prime importance and I think that oversized scale is better than undersized scale.

  Nancy Lancaster

  Thinking, Design, Prime

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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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