Interior Design Quotes - Page 3

• Just as a picture is created by adding a dab of paint at a time, the best arrangements are created a step at a time, with pauses so you can step back and see the overall effect.

  Charlotte Moss

  Design, Dabs, Steps

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• It is just as disastrous to have the wrong accessories in your room, as it is to wear sport shoes with an evening dress.

  Dorothy Draper

  Sports, Shoes, Dresses

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• Perfectionism is the death of a great room.

  Anne McDonald

  Design, Rooms, Perfectionism

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

  Albert Hadley

  Design, Sticks, Interiors

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• A decorator, no matter how talented, can't always get the desired results because sometimes there is resistance or maybe a lack of understanding on the part of the client. I think it is the decorator's job to work as a guide, to bring out the best qualities and the best attitudes.

  Albert Hadley

  Jobs, Attitude, Thinking

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• Decorating is like math, a game of adding and subtracting.

  Charlotte Moss

  Math, Games, Design

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• It is usually a mistake to impose an individual's taste on a room that has its own....style. Conversely, to put very fine pieces of furniture in a room that is without architectural distinction is as absurd as wearing a tiara with a bathing suit.

  Nancy Lancaster

  Mistake, Design, Style

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• You create your own decoration. You choose your color, you choose your mood. ... If you are depressed, you put some bright yellow and suddenly you are happy.

  Philippe Starck

  Happy, Depression, Color

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

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Change, Beauty, Beautiful

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• Forget the floor plans. Arrange the furniture where it is the most comfortable and will look best.

  Albert Hadley

  Furniture, Looks, Forget

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• A lot of people worry about
  the ' wear and tear ' on furnishings.
  I feel it's more a matter
  of people treating the things that surround them
  with respect.

  Albert Hadley

  Worry, People, Tears

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• Make your home as comfortable and attractive as possible and then get on with living. There's more to life than decorating.

  Albert Hadley

  Home, Attractive, More To Life

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• Good dressing is largely a question of detail and accessories.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Details, Accessories, Dressings

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

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• Minimalism in interior design has become a caricature. Everywhere you find shops or hotels with an ambience that makes you feel like you are in a refrigerator.

  Andree Putman

  Design, Like You, Refrigerators

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• The easiest approach to any strong color is to use a lot of it, thus unifying a room. However, beware of too many strong colors unless you happen to like living on a battlefield.

  Van Day Truex

  Strong, Color, Design

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• Take the time and do some small thing that will be noticed and remembered. Choose your objects carefully, and buy only what you love.

  Charlotte Moss

  Design, Remembered, Objects

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• I like to do interior design, I love to quilt, I love to see different colors together, and I love to match things up.

  Mary J. Blige

  Quilts, Color, Design

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• When Van Truex defined the difference between designing and decorating, he used the analogy of preparing a roast of beef. Design, he said, is the preparation and cooking; decorating is the final seasoning, the savoring.

  Albert Hadley

  Differences, Design, Cooking

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• I enjoy trying to inspire myself. I enjoy the artistic side of everything. Music, art, fashion, everything. I just like to be on the cutting edge of it. Im into designing houses and interior design. I like change. I like creating things out of nothing.

  Chris Kirkpatrick

  Fashion, Art, Cutting

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• 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

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• Rooms should be timeless.

  Sister Parish

  Design, Rooms, Timeless

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• Interior design is a travesty of the architectural process and a frightening condemnation of the credulity, helplessness and gullibility of the most formidable consumers - the rich.

  Stephen Bayley

  Design, Rich, Process

  Stephen Bayley (1991). “Taste: The Secret Meaning of Things”, Pantheon

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• You can never judge a paint hue by the liquid color in the paint pot. You must apply it to a wall, wait for the paint to dry, then decide.

  Dorothy Draper

  Wall, Color, Judging

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• I wanted to be a decorator. I wanted to interior design homes and do everything myself.

  Ursula Andress

  Home, Design, Wanted

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

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Design

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

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