Interiors Quotes - Page 12

• I have to say, without sounding like a total tosser, that everything I've learned in life, and that has taken me out of my natural interior life, has been with men. They exposed me to things that I wasn't aware of. I learned from all the guys.

  Helen Mirren

  Taken, Men, Guy

  "Command Performance". www.newyorker.com. October 2, 2006.

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• No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

  Edvard Munch

  Art, Reading, Men

  "The St. Cloud Manifesto" (Impressions from a ballroom, New Year's Eve in St. Cloud) by Edvard Munch, 1889.

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• The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

  Pope Paul VI

  Art, Lust, Crystals

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• To attract men, I wear a perfume called 'New Car Interior.'

  Rita Rudner

  Inspirational, Funny, Hilarious

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• It's a new day at the Department of Interior, and we need to examine what makes the most sense for the American people. These are American resources and American treasures, and we need to make sure we're providing the right kind of protection, oversight and stewardship of these resources for the American people.

  Ken Salazar

  People, New Day, Needs

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• I see artists bored by light-without-heat, irked at gigantic galleries' pushing out art-as-product, leaving behind the over determined for the undetermined, guided by interior voices and bringing us out of a long tunnel to new blueness.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Tunnels, Light

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• I'm a secret interior decorator. There's a mural on my dining room wall of the railroad tracks at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia. I love having my hometown with me out here in California.

  Jill Scott

  Wall, California, Philadelphia

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• I love jotting down ideas for my blog, so I doodle or take notes on all kinds of stuff that inspires me: the people I meet, boutiques I visit, a florist that just gave me a great idea for an interior-design project, things like that.

  Maria Sharapova

  Ideas, People, Design

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• I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.

  Patti Smith

  Book, Childhood, World

  "The life and deaths of Patti Smith". Interview with Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2008.

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• It was not until I had graduated from college that I made a professional commitment to it. Frankly, I didn't think it wise. I was my own interior parental force, and it's very difficult to justify a profession as a dancer.

  Twyla Tharp

  Wise, Commitment, College

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• A man will treat a woman almost exactly the way he treats his own interior feminine. In fact, he hasn't the ability to see a woman, objectively speaking, until he has made some kind of peace with his interior woman.

  Robert Johnson

  Men, Way, Facts

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• Luxury is anything you don't need, right? I mean, you need food, water, clothing, shelter... but good wine, good food, beautiful interiors, nice clothes; those aren't necessities, they are luxuries - it's all luxury.

  Marc Jacobs

  Beautiful, Nice, Wine

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• There are a lot of films where I play characters that are about the windows to the interior person rather than the exterior.

  Emmanuelle Beart

  Character, Play, Film

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• To me, it really seems visible today that ethics is not something exterior to the economy, which, as technical matter, could function on its own; rather, ethics is an interior principle of the economy itself, which cannot function if it does not take account of the human values of solidarity and reciprocal responsibility.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Responsibility, Matter, Today

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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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• Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.

  Salvador Dali

  Art, Character, People

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• I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child.

  Claude Debussy

  Children, Vision, Wish

  "Claude Debussy: His Life and Works". Book by Léon Vallas, p. 226, 1933.

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• You know, Hollywood sometimes tends to patronize the interior of the United States. As Horton Foote used to say, the great Texas playwright, that a lot of people from New York don't know what goes on beyond the South Jersey Shore.

  Robert Duvall

  New York, Texas, People

  "Robert Duvall and Sissy Spacek Interview GET LOW". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 30, 2010.

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• What a house. Turns out they're doing OK, the Malfoy's. However, the interior decorating leaves a lot to be desired. And needless to say, Voldemort isn't the greatest houseguest.

  Tom Felton

  House, Decorating, Turns

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• Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.

  Margaret Fuller

  Art, Adequate, Facts

  Margaret Fuller (1856). “At home and abroad: or, Things and thoughts in America and Europe”, p.198

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• I've always thought that design can have equal importance to the idea of internal architecture. Professionally, things can be very dogmatic - you do the architecture, someone else does the interiors, someone else does the furniture, the fabric, etc. But I think design is all-encompassing.

  Zaha Hadid

  Thinking, Ideas, Design

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• Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Literature, Architecture, Baroque Music

  Ernest Hemingway (2002). “Death in the Afternoon”, p.153, Simon and Schuster

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• There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Sea, Sky

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume One”, p.148, Wordsworth Editions

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• We are not made up, as we had always supposed, of successively enriched packets of our own parts. We are shared, rented, occupied. At the interior of our cells, driving them, providing the oxidative energy that sends us out for the improvement of each shining day, are the mitochondria, and in a strict sense they are not ours.

  Lewis Thomas

  Cells, Shining, Energy

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.

  Gene Tierney

  Passion, Should Have, House

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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