Interior Design Quotes

• Decorating is not about making stage sets, it's not about making pretty pictures for the magazines, it's really about creating a quality of life, a beauty that nourishes the soul.

  Albert Hadley

  Creating, Soul, Quality

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• We shape our homes and then our homes shape us.

  Winston Churchill

  Home, Shapes, Inspirational Design

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• The essence of interior design will always be about people and how they live.

  Albert Hadley

  Essence, People, Design

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• I deeply believe that a beautiful decor can have a beneficial influence on our lives.

  Albert Hadley

  Beautiful, Believe, Influence

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• Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, Business, Work

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.37, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Simplicity, suitability and proportion.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Simplicity, Design, Proportion

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

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• Remember, color is not just color, but mood, temperature and structure.

  Van Day Truex

  Color, Design, Temperature

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• The whole point of interior design is about creating environments where people can really live their lives and where you can connect with your friends and family.

  Vern Yip

  Creating, People, Design

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• What we remember most about rooms we like is the 'atmosphere.'

  Charlotte Moss

  Design, Atmosphere, Rooms

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• Have you ever noticed how some rooms exude a certain energy, warmth, and a harmony of spirit? If you have, then you have experienced the language of the home. A language softly spoken, and univerally understood.

  Charlotte Moss

  Home, Design, Energy

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• There seems to be within all of us an innate yearning to be lifted momentarily out of our own lives into the realm of charm and make believe.

  Dorothy Draper

  Life, Dream, Believe

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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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• Interior design is a business of trust.

  Venus Williams

  Design, Interiors

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• An interior designer must be able to clarify his intent keeping ever in mind that decorating is not a look, it's a point of view.

  Albert Hadley

  Views, Design, Mind

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• Design is defined by light and shade, and appropriate lighting is enormously important.

  Albert Hadley

  Light, Design, Important

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• The essence of interior design will always be about people and how they live. It is about the realities of what makes for an attractive, civilized, meaningful environment, not about fashion or what's in or what's out. This is not an easy job.

  Albert Hadley

  Motivational, Meaningful, Fashion

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• One sits more comfortably on a colour that one likes.

  Verner Panton

  Color, Sitting, Hue

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• Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.

  William Morris

  Life, Happiness, Beauty

  Hopes and Fears for Art "The Beauty of Life" (1882)

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• Ceilings must always be considered. They are the most neglected surface in a room.

  Albert Hadley

  Rooms, Ceilings, Surface

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• Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

  Scott Adams

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Scott Adams (2007). “Stick to Drawing Comics, Monkey Brain!: Cartoonist Explains Cloning, Blouse Monsters, Voting Machines, Romance, Monkey G ods, How to Avoid Being Mistaken for a Rodent, and More”, p.438, Penguin

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• I believe in doing the thing you feel is right. If it looks right, it is right.

  Dorothy Draper

  Believe, Design, Looks

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• You don't sell a commodity, you sell joy, gaiety, excitement. You aim at people's hearts, not their minds.

  Dorothy Draper

  Heart, People, Design

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• There is no excuse for doing anything which is not strikingly beautiful.

  William Morris

  Beautiful, Design, No Excuses

  May Morris, William Morris, Bernard Shaw (1936). “William Morris: artist, writer, socialist”

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• Good design is forever.

  Van Day Truex

  Design, Forever, Good Design

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• Beige is atmosphere. It's bisque, it's ivory, it's cream, it's stone, it's toast, it's cappuccino. It;s well, it's magic.

  Albert Hadley

  Ivory, Atmosphere, Magic

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