Interior Design Quotes - Page 6

• It is obvious that any rather non-color, monochromatic design is safe, easier, more generally restful and with life being the hurdy-gurdy that it is, more and more of us prefer and interior giving the maximum response.

  Van Day Truex

  Color, Giving, Design

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• It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something.

  Tadao Ando

  Life, Positive, Dream

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• I'm into designing houses and interior design. I like change. I like creating things out of nothing.

  Chris Kirkpatrick

  Creating Things, House, Design

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• I love to decorate and redecorate. Now it's called interior design, but the term decorating is fine with me.

  Gloria Vanderbilt

  Design, Fine, Term

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The one thing I never get involved with is selecting art or pictures for a client. This is a very personal thing. If the clients have pictures, I will hang them. When they do not own pictures I leave the walls blank.

  Albert Hadley

  Art, Wall, Clients

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• I always think out a problem as clearly as possible, and then act on it. My theory has always been to get started. The moment I get an idea I act upon it. If only people would act on more of their ideas, I am convinced they would lead more interesting lives.

  Dorothy Draper

  Thinking, Ideas, People

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• Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson star. I neglected to mention that, maybe because I was trying to place them in this review's version of the Witness Protection Program. If I were taken off the movie beat and assigned to cover the interior design of bowling alleys, I would have some idea of how they must have felt as they made this film.

  Roger Ebert

  Stars, Taken, Ideas

  Roger Ebert (2009). “Your Movie Sucks”, p.141, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Baroque sculpture and interior design has a quality of creating an environment that seems organic because it's full of curves and details, like a forest.

  Camille Henrot

  Curves, Creating, Design

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I had a parakeet that used to fly around the house and crash into these huge mirrors my mother put in. Ever heard of this interior design principle, that a mirror makes it seem like you have an entire other room? What kind of jerk walks up to a mirror and goes, Hey look, there's a whole other room in there. There's a guy that looks just like me in there.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Mother, Mirrors, Guy

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• When talking with a set designer the dialogue is more centered on locations, interior design, what I like and what doesn't work. There is a certain taste I'm drawn to and feel inspired by, and finding that inspiration is what keeps the conversation moving forward.

  Marc Forster

  Moving, Inspiration, Talking

  Interview with Octavio Molina, www.askmen.com. August 30, 2014.

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• I half wish that I had not been born with a sense of romance and beauty in this accursed age.

  William Morris

  Romance, Design, Age

  William Morris (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of William Morris (Illustrated)”, p.7060, Delphi Classics

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• Venus [Williams] has an amazing line; I love her collection. I'm always at her office. She has an interior design company and her EleVen company. They have a wonderful office space and I'm always there for the interior part and get to see what she's doing with EleVen.

  Serena Williams

  Office Space, Design, Lines

  Source: wwd.com

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• A gentle mixture of furniture expresses life and continuity but it must be a judicious mixture that flows and mixes well. It is a bit like mixing a salade. (I am better at room than salads).

  Nancy Lancaster

  Design, Mixing, Mixtures

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• ...When someone asks me to help create a room my first reaction, if I do not already know the person, is to try to feel out what he or she really wants the room to be and to understand, if possible, what "memory," old or new, has brought this idea about.

  Sister Parish

  Memories, Ideas, Design

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• Better rooms better furniture, better objects d'art can only be created for a society interested in living - not existing.

  Van Day Truex

  Art, Design, Rooms

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• The modern scene in decoration is not a unified or controlled one. The unified control of the arts during the reign of Louis XIV no longer exists; today the designer is free to achieve a wider variety and more personal approach to the interior.

  Van Day Truex

  Art, Design, Reign

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• Architecture would lead us to all the arts, as it did with earlier mean: but if we despise it and take no note of how we are housed, the other arts will have a hard time of it indeed.

  William Morris

  Art, Mean, Hard Times

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• I've always had a fascination with interior design. As a kid, I used to go to real estate open houses with my parents on the weekends. Like a nerd! I would think of how I would piece rooms together at those open houses.

  Jeremiah Brent

  Real, Kids, Weekend

  The Inside Source Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2011.

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• If I wasn't acting, I think I would like to do interior design. Yeah, because you know, with the Balinese background, and being there and buying furniture, stuff like that. I love to do-up our home, so I would be an interior decorator, for sure.

  Melissa George

  Home, Thinking, Design

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• Don't buy a bedroom suite, but collect your pieces separately - generally cheaper and always the decorator's way of furnishing.

  Dorothy Draper

  Pieces, Way, Bedroom

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• Mirrors have come to mean much more than the original 'looking glass.' They are now a part of the decorative scheme of a modern home. By using them, there are no dark, gloomy corners, no drab caverns for halls. There can be a feeling of freedom, light, air, space.

  Dorothy Draper

  Home, Mean, Dark

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• To create an atmosphere dedicated to health..to present charming interiors that will attract maternity patients...to develop distinctive decoration and furnishings that can be installed at modest expenditure - and will require a minimum of maintenance costs.

  Dorothy Draper

  Design, Atmosphere, Cost

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• How lucky I've been to live in such beautiful places and able to make them as I dreamed. I've been lucky. I've adored my houses more than my friends (or husbands).

  Nancy Lancaster

  Beautiful, Husband, House

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• Go to the source for ideas, go to the Metropolitan Museum, find your inspiration in nature, go to the Museum of Natural History, but never rely on something that someone else has done.

  Van Day Truex

  Inspiration, Museums, Ideas

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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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