Decor Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• Architecture is supposed to complete nature. Great architecture makes nature more beautiful-it gives it power.

  Claudio Silvestrin

  Beautiful, Giving, Architecture

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• I couldn't live without something that touches my heart. No one should.

  Donna Karan

  Heart, My Heart, Should

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• I ask you, what good is a big picture window and the lavish appointments and a priceless decor in a home if there is no mother there?

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Mother, Home, Priceless

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• Society is based on discontent: people wanting more and more and more, being continually dissatisfied with their homes, their bodies, their decor, their clothes, everything.

  Nick Harkaway

  Home, Clothes, People

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• The decor bowled me over. Everywhere I looked, there was something more to see. Botanical prints, a cross section of pomegranates, a passionflower vine and its fruit. Stacks of thick books on art and design and a collection of glass paperweights filled the coffee table. It was enormously beautiful, a sensibility I'd never encountered anywhere, a relaxed luxury. I could feel my mother's contemptuous gaze falling on the cluttered surfaces, but I was tired of three white flowers in a glass vase. There was more to life than that.

  Janet Fitch

  Beautiful, Mother, Art

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• At some time in the recent past someone had decided to brighten the ancient corridors of the University by painting them, having some vague notion that Learning Should Be Fun. It hadn’t worked. It’s a fact known throughout the universes that no matter how carefully the colors are chosen, institutional decor ends up as either vomit green, unmentionable brown, nicotine yellow or surgical appliance pink. By some little-understood process of sympathetic resonance, corridors painted in those colors always smell slightly of boiled cabbage—even if no cabbage is ever cooked in the vicinity.

  Terry Pratchett

  Fun, Past, Color

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.24, Harper Collins

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• Better mendacities Than the classics in paraphrase! Some quick to arm, some for adventure, some from fear of weakness, some from fear of censure, some for love of slaughter, in imagination, learning later . . . some in fear, learning love of slaughter; Died some, pro patria, non "dulce" non "et decor" . walked eye-deep in hell believing in old men's lies, the unbelieving came home, home to a lie.

  Ezra Pound

  Fear, Lying, Believe

  'Hugh Selwyn Mauberley' (1920) 'E. P. Ode pour l'èlection de son sèpulcre' pt. 4

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• I try not to bring in anything I don't love looking at. It's about restaint ... There is something about an unfinished quality that leaves within you that sense of possibility.

  Caio Fonseca

  Trying, Quality, Possibility

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• The really great thing about cats is their endless variety. One can pick a cat to fit almost any kind of decor, income, personality, mood. But under the fur, there still lies, essentially unchanged, one of the world's free souls.

  Eric Gurney

  Lying, Cat, Personality

  Eric Gurney (2016). “How to Live With A Calculating Cat”, p.24, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• I love what you might call brutal elegance. Where form and function are really obvious. There is nothing easily broken in this house.

  Meg Ryan

  Broken, House, Might

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• It's not hard to make a space that looks good by itself. The trick is to craft a room that's even more attractive when it's occupied. That's when it becomes magical.

  Kerry Joyce

  Space, Looks, Crafts

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• I don't think of decorating as a science or a discipline. People always say start with the rug, but it is often the last thing I end up selecting. I begin with whatever makes my heart sing.

  Deborah Buck

  Heart, Thinking, Discipline

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• Our kitchen is warm; it's who we are. And it has everything. Honestly, I could get rid of the rest of the house and just live in the kitchen.

  Ralph Lauren

  House, Kitchen, Who We Are

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• Kitchens should be designed around what's truly important-fun, food, and life.

  Daniel Boulud

  Life, Fun, Food

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• I was born in Paris in the mid-1960s, and by the time I was 12 I had started going to the movies by myself. Most of the movies of that period never appealed to me. I didn't like the 'naturalism,' the sad or the 'down-to-earth' characters. What I wanted from film was fantasy, dreams, funny situations, extravagant decor - and beautiful women.

  Christian Louboutin

  Beautiful, Dream, Character

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• When I entertain at home, I take time and pleasure in the small details that make all the difference. Entertaining is about giving to people and sharing with them.

  Valentino Garavani

  Home, Differences, People

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• I'm a firm believer that lighting affects mood, and twinkly lights on strings bring something magical to occasions ranging from concerts to weddings, though I'm fond of using them as year-round home decor. There's a reason why they're sometimes called fairy lights. When the night is right, there aren't any strings at all.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Home, Night, Light

  "Magic Moments in Life" by Erin Morgenstern, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.

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• You should have a picture of yourself as a kid in your home so that you remember where you came from.

  John Mayer

  Home, Kids, Should Have

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• I have every magazine known to mankind. I just love home decor and travel magazines, and I'm inspired to go visit places I've never been. That's what I really want to do - travel.

  Jillian Barberie

  Home, Magazines, Want

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• Disco satisfied social as well as musical needs. Disco people got to dress up all the time and go to places ... where everybody sort of 'looked good' - and later, after an evening of chemical alteration, everybody looked even better, and the next thing they knew, they were getting The Blox Job. Punk, in the late seventies, purported to be a rebellion against this sort of silly behavior. Maniac bands started thrashing away in dingy little places with no decor, developing their own silly behavior. ... New wave evolved from punk, basically, by sterilizing its own safety pin.

  Frank Zappa

  Jobs, Silly, Safety Pins

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• Most photographers go and photograph something that they see, that exists, and that somebody else has created - they document it. But fashion photographers have to create what they're going to photograph. We have to go into the thought and build it up, get a girl, get a guy, get a situation, get the house, get the decor. It's the meaning of the word photography: "writing with light."

  Mario Testino

  Girl, Photography, Fashion

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• Whoever we love, she or he is always under the bright spotlight on our stage and anything else is just a decor under the dimness!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Love, Spotlight, Stage

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• I was a hoarder, and I got rid of everything. Now nothing comes in my home unless it has a purpose. And decor is not a purpose. Home is New York apartment with a table, a bed and sofas. That's it. Everything else is gone.

  Linda Evangelista

  New York, Home, Bed

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• I would want to create an amphitheater outside of California where I would play everyday, and then people would have to come to me. I would create all this crazy stage decor and film it. Or I would just stay inside my home and do films. I would be like the modern Maya Deren.

  Lykke Li

  Crazy, Home, Play

  Source: pitchfork.com

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