Decorating Quotes - Page 3

• Christmas is the time for celebration, so I'm not against decorating, putting on lights, buying gifts. In fact, the whole reason we give gifts is the wise men gave gifts to Jesus at the first Christmas, and that started the gift-giving process.

  Rick Warren

  Wise, Jesus, Men

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I have found that I am not a space where people want to live, at least not without decorating first.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Space, People, Want

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• The things that you did with parents, whether it was spending every Sunday morning with your dad and eating French toast and watching Popeye, or decorating the Christmas tree with our mother - these are memories that help you be happy.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Mother, Morning, Memories

  "New Again: Leonardo Dicaprio". Interview with Ingrid Sischy, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 4, 2012.

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• In religions which have lost their creative spark, the gods eventually become no more than poetic motifs or ornaments for decorating human solitude and walls.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Wall, Creative, Solitude

  Nikos Kazantzakis, Carl Wildman (1953). “Zorba the Greek”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• Christmas always rustled. It rustled every time, mysteriously, with silver and gold paper, tissue paper and a rich abundance of shiny paper, decorating and hiding everything and giving a feeling of reckless extravagance.

  Tove Jansson

  Giving, Feelings, Gold

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• The whole scale and scope of the decorating and fashion business in this country are incomparably grander than in London. Whats thrilling about America in general, and the New York fashion scene in particular, is its optimism. It makes the whole experience energizing and uplifting.

  Hamish Bowles

  Uplifting, Country, Fashion

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• My passion is interior decorating. My goal for the next years is to get into carpentry, because I really want to learn how to make my own furniture.

  Anne Hathaway

  Passion, Years, Goal

  "Anne Hathaway learns from a legend in 'Prada'". The Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. June 21, 2006.

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• Design is coming to grips with one’s real lifestyle, one’s real place in the world. Rooms should not be put together for show but to nourish one’s wellbeing.

  Albert Hadley

  Real, Design, Together

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• The concept of having staple pieces with clean, basic lines, and adding accessories to funk it all up is one that applies to both fashion and decorating. There are so many parallels.

  Jeremiah Brent

  Fashion, Accessories, Pieces

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

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• Decorating is like music. Harmony is what we constantly strive for. At home, we want a peaceful atmosphere where the objects are the notes and nothing is off-key.

  Charlotte Moss

  Home, Keys, Design

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• When I am doing things around the house - when I'm decorating, setting up furniture, putting out a vase of flowers, lighting my candles, my mind is always thinking, "What do I need to do to make this space peaceful and restful and comfortable so that when people walk into it, aesthetically they're heightened and enlightened?"

  Evangeline Lilly

  Flower, Thinking, Space

  Source: www.justjared.com

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• I'm an actor. I'm just a creative person. I figure if I wasn't a good writer, I'd take to renovating homes... not renovating... decorating homes.

  Andrea Gabriel

  Home, Creative, Actors

  "Interview: Andrea Gabriel from ‘Lost’". Interview with Emma Loggins, www.fanbolt.com. March 2, 2010.

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• Decorating the gym can't mask the fact that it smells like a mix between corsage and balls.

  Daniel Tosh

  Smell, Balls, Facts

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• You might be a redneck if you watch Little House on the Prairie for decorating tips.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, House, Watches

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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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• I think there were some programs but in those days art programs were kind of basic. You would do drawing and simple collage type work. But at home I was beginning to get interested in doing my own thing as well. I'm not sure what inspired this, but I became very interested in decorating things.

  Paul Smith

  Art, Home, Simple

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• I like to add personal touches to my decorating style, including photographs and nostalgic items that remind me of family and home.

  Karlie Kloss

  Home, Style, Add

  "Karlie Kloss Wants You to Decorate Her Apartment". Interview with Samantha Leal, www.marieclaire.com. September 22, 2016.

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• I would like to be invisible because I'd love to go into people's houses and see their interior decorating.

  Rachel McAdams

  People, House, Invisible

  Source: www.enzasbargains.com

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• Thinking like ethical people, dressing like ethical people, decorating our homes like ethical people makes not a damn of difference unless we also behave like ethical people.

  George Monbiot

  Home, Thinking, Differences

  George Monbiot (2007). “Heat: how to stop the planet from burning”, South End Pr

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• We're living in a culture that doesn't believe in decorating buildings, or proportioning them properly. And they don't know how to do it anymore because they haven't been doing it for, you know, the better part of the century.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Believe, Culture, Building

  Source: www.slate.com

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• Decorating is a footnote to real life for me, a means to an end: Living well.

  Charlotte Moss

  Real, Mean, Ends

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• All rooms ought to look as if they were lived in, and to have so to say, a friendly welcome ready for the incomer.

  William Morris

  Friendly, Looks, Rooms

  William Morris, May Morris (2012). “The Collected Works of William Morris: With Introductions by His Daughter May Morris”, p.113, Cambridge University Press

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• I prefer things that are private, so I love recording and I love making films, as a filmmaker, because it uses every bit of what you have experienced or know, whether it's graphics composition, decorating, psychology, storytelling, or whatever it is. It's a wonderful thing.

  Barbra Streisand

  Psychology, Use, Wonderful

  Source: collider.com

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• It is told that the great Angelo, in decorating a church, painted some angels wearing sandals. A cardinal looking at the picture said to the artist: Whoever saw angels with sandals? Angelo answered with another question: Whoever saw an angel barefooted?

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Angel, Artist, Atheism

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1076, Library of Alexandria

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• Every year, like a good Catholic, I wait for Christmas. Putting up the lights, decorating the tree, making sweets and then unwrapping gifts on Christmas morning... its a tradition my family has followed since I was very little.

  Malaika Arora Khan

  Sweet, Morning, Light

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