Interiors Quotes - Page 9

• The artistic reward for refuting the received national tradition is liberation. The price is homelessness. Interior exile.

  C.D. Wright

  Rewards, Artistic, Tradition

  C.D. Wright (2012). “Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil”, p.39, Copper Canyon Press

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• Anyone who has become entranced by the sound of water drops in the darkness of a ruin can attest to the extraordinary capacity of the ear to carve a volume into the void of darkness. The space traced by the ear becomes a cavity sculpted in the interior of the mind.

  Steven Holl

  Space, Water, Darkness

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• No, painting is not interior decoration. It is an instrument of war for attack and defense against the enemy.

  Pablo Picasso

  War, Enemy, Defense

  Hans Ludwig C. Jaffé, Pablo Picasso (1983). “Pablo Picasso”, Harry N. Abrams

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• God looks at the heart, and we shouldn't judge by appearance . . . but we still live on the earth, and everyone here looks at the exterior, because only God sees the interior.

  Nancy Leigh DeMoss

  Heart, Judging, Looks

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• Faeries are seen through the heart, not through the eyes. Remember that faeries inhabit the interior of the earth and the interior of all things, so look, in the first place, in the interior of yourself.

  Brian Froud

  Heart, Eye, Looks

  "Brian Froud and Faery". World of Froud Interview, www.worldoffroud.com.

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• If we grew our own food, we wouldn't waste a third of it as we do today. If we made our own tables and chairs, we wouldn't throw them out the moment we changed the interior decor. If we had to clean our own drinking water, we probably wouldn't contaminate it.

  Mark Boyle

  Drinking, Tables And Chairs, Water

  "My year of living without money" by Mark Boyle, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2009.

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• The soul is kissed by God in its innermost regions. With interior yearning, grace and blessing are bestowed. It is a yearning to take on God's gentle yoke, It is a yearning to give one's self to God's Way.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Blessing, Self, Giving

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• I think there's a terrible price to be paid when your exterior life is not an honest reflection of your interior life.

  Gene Robinson

  Reflection, Thinking, Honest

  "'I'm not the gay bishop - I'm just the bishop'". Interview With Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2009.

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• . . . Our Lord humbles in order to raise up, and allows the suffering of interior and exterior afflictions in order to bring about peace. He often desires some things more than we do, but wants us to merit the grace of accomplishing them by several practices of virtue and to beg for this with many prayers.

  Vincent de Paul

  Prayer, Order, Practice

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1990). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)”

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• To create an interior, the designer must develop an overall concept and stick to it.

  Albert Hadley

  Design, Sticks, Concepts

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• I suppose the most marked example of color as structure is in the Byzantine use of mosaic decoration that becomes architecture. The decoration of the interiors so related to the form that they fuse. In less elaborate interior design this is always the ideal approach to color - used not only as just color alone.

  Van Day Truex

  Color, Design, Example

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• I love old architecture. I love collecting furniture, mixing really earthy things with the very polished. I don't come from an interiors background, so I'm not an expert. I just enjoy going to antiques shows and finding interesting things.

  Jason Wu

  Interesting, Mixing, Experts

  "Jason Wu Makes His Move into Home". Interview with Anne Monoky, www.architecturaldigest.com. October 31, 2011.

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• It is general knowledge for anyone interested in color that subdued value, intensity and hue make for quieter, less adventuresome interiors. Stronger approaches need stronger knowledge, more experience and flair.

  Van Day Truex

  Color, Design, Stronger

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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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• 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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• Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior.

  Charles Sturt

  Patience, Kindness, Communication

  Charles Sturt (1834). “Two expeditions into the interior of Southern Australia: during the years 1828, 1829, 1830 and 1831 with observations on ... New South Wales”, p.128

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• The interior joy we feel when we have done a good deed is the nourishment the soul requires.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Joy, Soul, Done

  Albert Schweitzer (1979). “Reverence for Life”, p.81, Ardent Media

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• America's last pioneers, urban nomads in search of wide open interior spaces

  Cathleen McGuigan

  America, Space, Pioneers

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• The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort of mask, richly colored. The interior working of the machinery must be foul.

  John Quincy Adams

  Country, History, Age

  John Quincy Adams (1951). “Diary, 1794-1845: American Diplomacy and Political, Social, and Intellectual Life from Washington to Polk”

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• That, if a straight line falling on two straight lines makes the interior angles on the same side less than two right angles, the two straight lines, if produced indefinitely, meet on that side on which the angles are less than two right angles.

  Euclid

  Fall, Science, Two

  Euclid, Dana Densmore (2002). “Euclid's Elements: all thirteen books complete in one volume : the Thomas L. Heath translation”, Green Lion Pr

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• In architecture and interiors, as well as fashion, there is an interaction that is both functional and aesthetic.

  Joseph Altuzarra

  Fashion, Architecture, Aesthetic

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• The interior life is often stupid.

  Annie Dillard

  Stupid, Life Is

  Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.22, Canongate Books

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• Everyone knows this.
  The voyage into the interior is all that matters,
  Whatever your ride.

  Charles Wright

  Matter, Voyages, Knows

  Charles Wright (2014). “Littlefoot: A Poem”, p.80, Macmillan

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• Almsgiving, according to the Gospel, is not mere philanthropy; rather it is a concrete expression of charity, a theological virtue that demands interior conversion to love of God and neighbor, in imitation of Jesus Christ, who, dying on the cross, gave his entire self for us.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Jesus, Self, Expression

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• As Bertrand Russell once wrote, two plus two is four even in the interior of the sun.

  Martin Gardner

  Writing, Science, Two

  Martin Gardner (2009). “When You Were a Tadpole and I Was a Fish: And Other Speculations About This and That”, p.124, Macmillan

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