Elsie de Wolfe Quotes About Design

Quotes about: Design

• I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Change, Beauty, Beautiful

• The cardinal virtue of all beauty is restraint.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Design, Virtue, Cardinals

  Elsie De Wolfe (1974). “After all”, Ayer Co Pub

• You can't take it with you. There are no pockets in a shroud.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Design, Pockets, Interior Design

• My business is to preach to you the beauty of suitability.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Design, Interior Design

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

• 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

• I believe in plenty of optimism and white paint.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Believe, White, Optimism

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

• 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

• 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

• Simplicity, suitability and proportion.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Simplicity, Design, Interior Design

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

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